On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 03:26 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:02:04PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> [snip]
> > What I meant was, could you please point me to this script? Not that 
> > it's relevant to .deb packages. I'm just curious.
> 
> It was in the first mail (I deleted it already) but thanks to browser
> history:
> http://www.evolutioncolt.com/mainweb/?q=node/11
> 
> or direct links:
> http://www.evolutioncolt.com/downloads/evolutioncolt_oo2_java.sh
> http://www.evolutioncolt.com/downloads/evolutioncolt_oo2_nonjava.sh
> 
> I don't like these scripts since they hardcode the version, don't
> support offline-installation and they could have probably used the
> freedesktop-menus rpm as base for the menus.
> Probably it misses a call to update-desktop-database for the
> menu-entries as well.

Yes, they aren't the finest examples of bash scripting, but IMHO they
are an improvement on typing it all in by hand, a process we already
document on http://download.openoffice.org/680/ and in
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html. 

Hard-coding the version isn't smart, but at least you known which
version of the code the author of the script has used for testing :-)

Judging by the comments on the Ubuntu forums, these scripts are meeting
a need. Incidentally, the user reaction there to the new version is also
very positive.

John


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