On Wed, Feb 25, 2004, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: [OOo-H] Debian language packages for OO": > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > > I would just love it if we had a language package for Debian. > You aren't the only one. This is on our task list for 2004. > > > Does the project currently have patches for 1.1.1b ? > No.
A few weeks ago, I pointed out that even without being able to compile OpenOffice, there's much a volunteer can probably do to help that project. Sure, it would be great if Sun or TKOS created Debian packages, but why wait for them? Somebody with knowledge of building debs, and a little knowledge, can do wonders. For the English deb, you can take Sun's procompiled version, add a few shell-scripts and such and call it a deb. I wonder if that's not what the Debian people actually did (rather than compile the whole thing themselves). For the Hebrew version, you can do the same. But what would be most interesting would be to take Hebrew and English versions of the same release, and see which of the files actually differ. Many of them probably wouldn't, and all sorts of tricks like symbolic links, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc., can be played so that the combined Hebrew-English would not be 2 times as large as the English distribution, hopefully only (say) 1.1 times as large. Of course, this is rather ugly, and I'm not entirely sure this would work, but if some volunteer wants to do something useful instead of waiting for JBA and his crew (who are also busy doing other things!), it's certainly worth a shot. (P.S. the credit for this idea is due to Tzafrir Cohen, I saw him mention it it on another list). -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Feb 25 2004, 3 Adar 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I intend to live forever - so far, so http://nadav.harel.org.il |good. ============================================================== To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body.
