Hi Eli, On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Hi, > > Following a conversation with Yonathan, I decided to check out the > latest sources directly from the CVS repository (by the way: Yonathan, > I'm still waiting for the instructions... ;-). Instructions to get the source from the CVS repository : setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs cvs login ( password anoncvs) cvs co -r OO643C OpenOffice > > All my Linuxes were too full to download a so huge package (about 0.5GB > *BEFORE* compilations), so I pointed my WinCVS at it, and checked out > the "all". > > Then I investigated the latest modification dates of the source files > (*.c, *.h, *.cxx, *.hxx, *.java, *.pl, *.idl, *.src, *.hrc), and found > an amazing thing: > > The latest public snapshot was 643C on November 21. > > Since November 22 till December 20, 2292 source files were modified > (79 files per day). > > Since December 21 till January 12, 29 source files were modified (1.26 > files per day). > > I know that there were some days of holidays etc., but it still doesn't > explain the huge difference. > > So what is the explanation? > > 1. Did the capacity of OpenOffice.org developers dropped by 99%? > 2. Did Sun fired all of them when it cut 4000 employees (in mid Dec.) > and nobody told us? > > - or - more meaningful for us - > > 3. Did they just move to another repository? > > Yonathan (or anybody else): If you have any idea where all the latest > updates are kept, please let me know immediately; It's critical for us, > to have something before the travel of Yonathan to Germany. > > By the way: among the 29 files that were modified recently, there are > some that deal with RTL (!). However, I suspect that they belong to the > testing stuff, so no functionality and/or behavior is expected to > change. > > Thanks, > -- Rachel Asheri-Cezana Tk Open Systems LTD Mobile : 972-54-676619 Home : 972-2-6452359
