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
-- 
Rettet die Wale und stÃrzt das System, und trennt euren MÃll, 
denn viel Mist ist nicht schÃn!         
                                    Gustav, "Rettet die Wale"


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