James, Alex, Am Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:47:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00) schrieb James Mckenzie: > Alex: > > Your service was and is much appreciated. I understand your frustration > and that Sun appears to be leaving behind many Mac users. Sun is not alone > but they are missing about 1/2 of the Mac people by abandoning or making it > difficult to maintain PPC builds. Soon, my PowerBook G4 will be > good for not > much more than a door holder.
Please don't only blame Sun on this, it's also Apple forcing us to use and stick with 10.4.x and newer because of the improvements that are done with 10.4.x upwards and the freezing of the java Framework before 10.4.x and the soon to com freeze of Carbon for 10.5.x plus the impossibility to use other coding environments as the ones Apple provides. I think everybody from the coders tries it's best to keep OOo alive on the PPC as long as it will be able to run 10.4.x. Also keep in mind that we only have two full time coders from Sun compared to say at least 30+ for all the other plattforms. Once we have 30+ coders for the Mac it may be possible to develop a Carbon (or maybe it's possible with the Cocoa version too) version that can be backported to 10.3.x but as long as this isn't case we must stick with what makes coding easier even if this means to drop support for older Versions than Mac OS X 10.4.x. Just my 2 Eurocents :-) Eric -- ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
