Now that we are up and running again, I think it's worth resurrecting
the en-GB localisation. I was lead prior to the Apache move and would
be happy to resume.
Stuart
On 19/03/2012 22:22, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 03/19/2012 10:42 PM, schrieb Kurt Underhay:
Hi Kurt,
Thanks for the reply and the info. Given that it's a known situation,
wouldn't it be possible to come up with a more palatable and
user-friendly solution than a 404? 404s don't generally leave a good
Oh, right. This was due to giving up the previous download service. It
was hosted by Oracle. There were more details for the user than just the
404 message. I'll see if this could be put back again.
impression. Maybe something like disabling the download link for this
combination, or even better, directing to a page that gives a short
explanation along the lines of what you've just described. Why not take
Due to the method the download is working, this is not an option. It's
not possible to differentiate wJRE and nonJRE builds for different
languages.
the opportunity to keep folks informed, rather than leave them thinking
that something's broken? Seems it should be trivial enough to do.
Is there anything I can do to help test the non-JRE British version?
Unfortunately, the time is over to release additional builds for OOo 3.3.0.
For new en-GB releases here at Apache we have to see if some translators
speak up and if they would continue the localization work. I know, the
British English has slightly but important differences, so the English
US builds are not a suitable recommendation. ;-)
Marcus
On Monday, 19 March 2012, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> the reason is that the British QA team (at Oracle times, before OOo
was given to Apache) hasn't tested the Windows installer without JRE,
only with JRE. Therefore only the first was released. See here:
>
> http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/files/localized/en-GB/3.3.0/
>
> So, the file is not existing and the errror message is right.
>
> As alternative you should download the Windows installer with JRE. If
not needed you can skip its installation.
>
> HTH
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> Am 03/19/2012 02:42 PM, schrieb Kurt Underhay:
>>
>> On the page
>> http://openoffice.org/download/other.html
>>
>> the link to download the English (British) / Windows Intel MSI package
>> *excluding* the JRE is consistently broken, returning a 404 page.
>>
>> The page seems to be trying to link to this URL:
>>
http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/files/localized/en-GB/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe
--
Stuart Swales
