Dear OOo Mac developers,
I do a lot of (mostly scientific/numerical) software development on
GNU/Linux, and am very familiar with autoconf etc., although I use MacOS X
as my desktop machine and many years ago wrote GUI software for MacOS (pre
X). I'm eagerly looking forward to the Aqua version of OOo, but I
wondered if there was any chance of getting it working on MacOS 10.2 or
10.3.
The reason I ask is that my mother works with computers at an elementary
school that uses a lot of Macintoshes, and they are currently facing a
transition away from AppleWorks (which is being discontinued by Apple).
OpenOffice.org seems like it would be a great alternative for them.
However, they have a large number of older computers still running MacOS
10.2 and 10.3, and may not be able to upgrade them in the near term.
I was thinking about working on a port to 10.2 this December or January
based on your latest Aqua sources at that point in time. Before I did so,
however, I wanted to get a sense of how difficult this might be and
whether other developers have any interest in older MacOS systems.
Can you give me a quick opinion of this? Is it just a matter of futzing a
bit with the build procedure, header files, commenting out a bit here and
there, etc? Would you accept patches for backwards compatibility? Or are
10.4-only features deeply woven into the codebase?
Regards,
Steven G. Johnson
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