Ralph Aichinger wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 18:24 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote:
You don't have to use Java to run OOo.
Technically you don't.
In practice you won't get around it for 2.0. Even Debian
(who ripped out all Java-related parts in 1.1) tries to
port some parts to a free (in the Debian sense) Java
runtime AFAIK, as lots of stuff depends on Java nowadays.
If you don't have Java, you don't have Macros
If you don't have Java, you don't have some Export/Import
filters.
If you don't have Java, most Wizards are missing.
If you don't have Java, you will get severely misleading
error messages:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41511
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37020
(If somebody with the permissions would reopen the latter
issue, I would be grateful, otherwise I will file a
new one, as I *do* think this is bad wording, that misleads
users into thinking their program has crashed. Nobody
expects a error message to repeat 15 times with the
same text!).
/ralph
Robert Derman replies: Since Sun owns Java, and since they give away a
Java runtime as a free download, and they are the primary sponser of
OOo, why don't they simply imbed a Java runtime in the OOo 2.0 install
code that searches for an existing copy of Java runtime, and if none is
found, automatically installs one? As I have said, since they give
this away anyway, I don't see a problem.
