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
No. StarBasic doesn't require Java, only Macros using the Scripting Framework (f.e. JavaScript). The messages about Java you mention below are bugs. > If you don't have Java, you don't have some Export/Import > filters. Yes, the XML filters usually use Java. But most end user won't need them at all. I for myself didn't use any Java based filters in all the years they are built into OpenOffice.org. > If you don't have Java, most Wizards are missing. Yes. > 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 These are bugs. > (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!). I'm astonished to see that. I will try to get some additional information about this. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
