Couple of links to add, then I'll shut up.
On 6/6/07, Eric Hoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi James,
Am Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:36:22 -0400 (EDT) schrieb James Mckenzie:
>> From: Eric Hoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Why the hell should we help a fork of OpenOffice.org? Did they help
>> us? No. None of their coders even made and attempt to help us
>> getting the basic stuff of OOo 2.x running. They simply waited
>> until we had 2.0.x ported to Mac OS X Panther later Tiger and in
>> the end to Intel PC - took our code, made some more or less stable
>> additions, sold this for 20 bucks or so to early subscribers and
>> that's it. Still they get all the attention and users blame us.
>>
> Erice, Patrick provided a very large patchset that made OpenOffice.org
> 1.1.4 buildable on the Mac. Without this, I could not build. That is
> not little or not support.
That's right. But we got the code from Patrick after 1.1.x was soon
to be outdated and dissmissed after 1.1.5 which should only bring
reading support for the new oasis format.
In the end it was nice to get the code donated but it was too late.
For the changes between 2.x and 1.1.x prevented us from using his
code he is not to blame they were mostly done by Sun.
For the influence of the code donation, see:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Porting_-_contributions_from_NeoOffice
Ericb says that page is biased. I'm not so sure. Free free to "unbias" it.
> And yes, Patrick has squashed some really nasty
> bugs that we are trying to fix to this day. He has the right to
> withhold his fixes per the GPL and LGPL as those fixes could be
> incorporated into a commercial product.
Agreed.
For a list of bugs that still possibly affect OOo proper, see:
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Release_Notes
(and all the earlier pages)
The things to understand from that are:
1) the amount of bugs is not small
2) some of those bugs have taken very much of developer time to find,
isolate, fix and verify
3) yes, some of it affects only the Java-UI implementation, but my
guess is that most of it affects OOo and OOo Aqua, either directly or
via similar weakness.
.....
BTW. the other side has done some promotion for OOo Aqua:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
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