Just one note

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:

> I am glad to announce that IBM Israel is ready to distribute updates to
> the source for OpenOffice word processor (swriter), aimed at providing
> Bidi (Hebrew and Arabic) support.

Glad to see you managed to get at least that

>
> According to the guidelines set by our legal department, we cannot release
> the full product, so we have built a set of diff source files and
> associated documentation.Whoever wants to create a Bidi-enabled version
> of swriter should do the following:
>
> a) Ask me (by private e-mail) to send you the package (around 600K for the
> doc and 120K for the source diff files)
> b) Wait patiently to receive the stuff as e-mail attachments
> c) Read the doc
> d) Download the full sources of OpenOffice
> e) Apply the diff files to the OpenOffice source files as described in the
> doc (CompilOO641d.html)
> f) Build the OpenOffice executables (also described in the doc)
> g) Test swriter with Hebrew
> h) Be happy everafter?

Just something that should be mentioned:

from: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

  How much hard drive space needed for a full build of OpenOffice.org
  including source?

    The current recommendation is 3GB.

    The source code is ~328MB

    The build requires 2GB

    The creation of an installation set requires ~300MB.

  How long does an OpenOffice.org build take?

    Our current experience is that a full build of OpenOffice.org is
    approximately 20 hours on a single CPU Pentium III with 256MB of RAM
    running Linux.
>
> When the changes and build will have been verified by at least one of the
> wise linux-il crowd, we would be very glad if somebody (iglu site?) can
> put the update package and/or the executables on some ftp server for
> everybody to download.

Sure. Any comments on the binary compatibility of existing OpenOffice
builds?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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