On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:51:07PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote: > [...] > >But the point stated is that the debian developers don't provide vanilla > >OOo but a patched one. > > There are two sets of debs provided. One is patched, and the other > isn't. Right now I am running a non-patched deb-installed OOo 1.9.106.
Then just extend this to: "not build in the same environment, with the exact same tools". > >Sais who? Sun will surely continue building with JDK. > > Please join the jdk-tools list. This has been discussed at length. I suggest you read it again or point me to a message that states that Sun will build OOo using gcj. Maintaining compatibility and collaboration with other developers doesn't imply a switch in build environment. > OOo > has been working with gcj for some time to make sure that any Java in > OOo runs with gcj. And we have a set of policies to Java in OOo able to > run on free JVMs. Though our emphasis, and testing is on gcj. So what? Having it compile with gcj doesn't mean it is acutally compiled with that. > >The java-package fetches and installs Sun's JRE > > Which package is this? I haven't seen it (on either Windows or Ubuntu). You never did see Sun's JRE? The JRE is a seperate download, not part of OOo. The verstion the script fetches is 1.5.0_3 > [...] > >I don't know why it takes a script to do this, but at least it is not a > >modified version of OOo. > > I am running a deb-installed un-modified OOo 1.9.106. See above. And building from unpatched sources doesn't mean that it is compiled with the same set of features, with the same configure-switches. > >>And as I said earlier, all this, to get a more fragile product. > > > >Naa. > > In my experience, alien is fragile for large programs. OOo is no longer a large program package-wise. The biggest junk is 21 MB. ciao Christian -- NP: Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
