Hi Maho, *,

sorry for jumping in to the issue so late,...

On 10/24/07, Maho NAKATA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> Still vanilla builds have some problems.
> * naming problem (OpenOffice.org-2.3-en-US.dmg or something like should
> be renamed)

IIRC the issue just waits for a final decision. Renaming the packages themselves
is easily done in the instsetoo_native/util/makefile.mk
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72908

> * language pack problem. Otherwise,

What problem? :-) languagepacks already work on the Mac. What is left is to
define the user experience, i.e.: write/complete the specification, so that the
installer can be made ready for the user.
Shaun already posted the link to the working-spot for the specificaion

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_languagepacks

(What is expected in the specification is not the implementation details, but
what dialogs should be displayed to the user/what the user should be
asked in these dialogs - so it is simple)

If you want to try it out, you can take instsetoo_native from cloph10
(after I resynced it to m235 - m233 introduced the nibs that are missing
in the m228 based cws - I'll resync after I send this mail)

> @good-day:
>
> % du -h SRC680_m233
> 51G     SRC680_m233
>
> Both PPC/Intel X11/AQUA. Approximately 13G for each set (13Gx4=52G).

Building the full installsets leaves the staging directory behind, removing this
from the disk after the dmg has been created can save lots of space.

For comparison: A languagepack will be approx 15MB in size.

now to PPC that was addressed in later messages:
You (all) might know or not that I maintain the Mac tinderbox (the
real tinderbox,
not one of the buildbots) - and that this machine is a PPC machine.
So buildability on PPC is always tested with that machine. And as long as
it builds on PPC, of course the user should get a PPC version.

I could provide installsets for selected cws on request or could build
a milestone on request. But because I'm on ADSL (and thus have a slow
upload) I cannot reasonably provide many languages (unless it is OK to
wait hours for the upload) - Maho's setup is far more suitable for this.

wrt. Distribution matters:
You (all) might know or not (that is more likely :-)) - that I maintain one of
the BitTorrent trackers of OOo - and that the first snapshots have been
successfully distributed via BitTorrent. The distribution via BitTorrent is
very useful when a few files will need to be served to many users at the very
same time. It will greatly reduce the load on the distribution server
in that case
(in Effect more users can download (with high speed) at the same time.
Instead of either a few users with high speed or many users with low speed
as it is the case when a regular http/ftp server and not a P2P based system
is used.

ciao
Christian

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