On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 07:04 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > First the news, then a little note to them. How come this > article by Bruce isn't mentioned here already (at least, I don't see > anything related to it in my oo.o-discuss inbox): > > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/204244 > > The comments are interesting comments too. > > Then the note. Yours truly is quoted as "journalist and > OpenOffice.org volunteer": > > 1) Thanks to Bruce calling me "journalist" for sake of a few articles > here and there about FOSS!!! I hope I can live up to it in the > future :-) In the meantime, I've already printed it and sent to > mom! > > 2) About the "OO.o volunteer": I _am_ indeed confused by the OO.o > relationship with Java for the reasons summarized in the article, > but I do recommend it anyway to whoever I can as good software > and the first thing almost everybody should install on his PC. > Hope this justifies the "volunteer" part. > > Any comments on the article are appreciated. Thanks to Bruce for > writing it.
Just on a technical point, progress on the gcj port has continued since my posting on the gcj lists. While the patched rhino still doesn't build with gcj (hence the scripting project portions that use it also don't build) the filter and connectivity projects do build, i.e. hsqldb and the database front end work with gcj. wizards and qadevOOo also now build with gcj, though there is a little work remaining to get the wizards to work properly. The OOo java bean also builds with gcj, and with the patches at http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/gcj4/workspace-gcj4.patch we can speed up the buildtime use of java which build the helpcontent2 to a degree where what was taking nearly 20hours for a full language build of OOo to a more reasonable 8hours. Workspaces gcj1/2 and 3 have been integrated since reporting that original bootstrapping result. C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
