On Tuesday 26 April 2005 09:10, + Jack Marxer wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > Please stop using Java as part of Open Office. It is not free software and > makes it less likely that Open Office itself will remain free.
Hi Jack,
Thanks for you opinions. We look forward to your replacement for those areas
in OpenOffice.org (note not "Open Office" ) where java is used. Many people
will indeed be interested in your contributions, but as the release candidate
for OOo 2.0 is not far away you will have to hurry up to get your code into
the official OpenOffice.org code base.
As a start please download and compile OpenOffice.org source code, to see exactly where Java is actually used. If you have any development related questions please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please reply to [email protected] only
-- CPH : openoffice.org contributor
Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ
It occurs to me that the concern refers to the JRE error that often occurs when the OOo installation can't find a Java Runtime Environment as it opens on being invoked. IIRC, the JRE is freely available from Sun (and at least v 2.0 Beta comes with the JRE installed. Although in my case it wasn't obvious to my OOo that it was there, so I kept getting the error. When I tried to install a current (free) JRE from Sun, the system refused to install it, saying a JRE was already installed--and after that, my OOo knew where its JRE was , and the error went away. Go figure. But it's a Beta).
Eric Hines
Out of the argument with ourselves comes poetry, out of the argument with others comes politics.
--Yeats
