On Friday 21 January 2005 15:26, Sarah Bate wrote:
> Thank you Joerg.  This is a good explaination.
>
> So, does this also mean that the continued X11 port will be comparable in
> functionality to say...Linux ports?
>
> I'd like to be able to provide some type of high level feature comparison.

Hi Sarah,
 I think so (as much as is possible). However if you want more information you 
should really ask on the relevant project : http://porting.openoffice.org/ -> 
"Mailing Lists" -> "dev" - having a look at the archive for previosu 
discussions of this topic).

CPH

>
> Thanks,
>
> Sarah Bate
> "Joerg Barfurth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Sarah Bate wrote:
> >> Thank you Alastair.  Yes - I do mean the evolution of the OpenOffice
> >> product - not Evolution.
> >>
> >> One question in regard to the X11 porting project. What impact, if any,
> >> is seen with the discontinuing of an X11 2.0 port?  Reading the Slashdot
> >> blogs I can see the engineering issues.
> >> (http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/01/16/1853232.shtml?tid=185&tid=3 )
> >
> > It appears that this gets easily mixed up:
> >
> > - Of course OOo will continue to support X11 on unix-like platforms.
> > - The Mac OS X port using X11 support for display is alive and well.
> > - The NeoOffice/J project that tries to create a Mac OS X port/fork with
> > Aqua UI will continue to do so.
> >
> > Until recently there was a roadmap, that work on an Aqua port within the
> > OpenOffice.org project (rather than in NeoOffice) would be resumed in the
> > foreseeable future (by the people who explored solutions for this in
> > NeoOffice). This announcement was now withdrawn. At the same time it was
> > emphasised that the OSX/X11 port must stay alive for NeoOffice/J or any
> > future OSX/Aqua port to be feasible.
> >
> > So the only news is that something that existed only as an announcement
> > so far was cancelled due to lack of people doing it.
> >
> > Ciao, J�rg
> >
> > --
> > Joerg Barfurth              Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using std::disclaimer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
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