On 10/17/2011 03:39 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:
Hi,
2011/10/17 RGB ES<[email protected]>:
2011/10/17 Nelson Marques<[email protected]>
Hi all,
My name is Nelson and I'm a long time user of OpenOffice and OpenSUSE
user. I've noticed that the openSUSE repositories are "abandoned" for
the last 12 months, and I'm planning to explore the possibility of
packaging it and deliver (if such is possible for a single soul with
scarce time).
YES! As an openSuSE person, I too, had thought about this but hadn't
gotten around to exploring the SuSE build utility! Good for you and much
success with this. I can probably help somewhat. Thanks so much for
taking the initiative on this. Needless to say, I was quite unhappy when
openSuSE abandoned OOo. But, I installed it anyway. Not a big problem
really.
I'm not sure on how it will be accepted, but I would assume a
contribution like this would be welcomed by openSUSE (I don't
represent openSUSE in any way). My main motivations are strong. I
won't be contributing with code to Apache OpenOffice.org, unless it's
something related with packaging. I've never peeked at the sources
before, maybe now it's a good time to check how build this.
Is this the right place to hang around ?
With love from Portugal,
Nelson Marques
Great! IMHO, a repository with a vanilla OOo build will be just perfect!
openSUSE's build service(1) permits to build packages not only for openSUSE,
but also for fedora, debian, ubuntu and others.
I was only thinking on openSUSE supported, and I can cover Fedora as
well, for the other platforms supported by OBS I have no experience at
all (been running RH/SUSE for the last 13 years).
Be aware that there are switches that disable copyleft parts like gstreamer
backend and hunspell: for a user oriented build maybe is good idea to enable
them... ;)
I'm sure that won't be a problem.
Cheers
Ricardo
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