On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:38 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Predictably, I prefer approach I on first principles: > > Never derail the train that's running. > > > > From that perspective, there's all of this: > > - All of the developers and many testers and others know > > how to build AOO 3.4.0 including people who are working > > from the source tarball and the folks working on LibreOffice > > and other co-dependents as well > > The Symphony build platform is not very different from AOO. But since > it was supported only on Windows/Mac/Linux, additional work would be > needed for the *BSD, Solaris and OS/2. But this is also required for > option I, since the code merged in from Symphony would also be > untested on other ports. So I think it is the same or similar work, > differing mainly in the pace of change. > > > - the current community includes those who build special > > distros (of OOo and LO), provide QA that serves all of us, > > etc. > > Not sure what you are referring to. Are you referring to things like > PortableApps?
Sure, and EuroOffice, NeoOffice, NeoShineOffice and I suppose a few others - a few companies field vertical market style applications based on the code line, medical records comes to mind but I can't recall the actual company name . At least that is what came to my mind when reading along. //drew <snip>
