On 10/13/2012 07:20 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb:
Couple of questions:
(Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO
and LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom
Davis referencing the fact that Symphony was kept in sync with OOo).
Such exchange is mainly a question of license. Currently form AOO to
LO would be possible. But LO does not take changes, because (AFAIK) LO
has not finished relicensing. From LO to AOO is currently only
possible, of the author puts it under Apache License in addition.
Are
any changes integrated between AOO and LO (in either direction) at this
time?
The patch about line caps (from Armin and me) is still waiting to be
integrated into LO. Other parts, which I have integrated, are not
coming from AOO or LO but from OOo time.
Technically both directions are possible. But some work is necessary
because LO removed German comments, some variable names and types
changed, some content moved to other files and the name of the debug
macros were changed. I'm no professional developer, so there might
exist some tricks to make applying a patch smoother than it was for me.
There have been wide-spread changes in the LO code, and I thought that
it would be very difficult to keep things in sync. Some of those
wide-spread changes would be useful in AOO. Had not even thought of the
licensing issues (as mentioned by Pedro).
I have been asked this question specifically (as it related to the
code clean-up effort in LO), and I generally say "I don't know, but I
don't think so".
(Q) AOO lists use addresses such as ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org and
ooo-...@incubator.apache.org. Assuming that AOO is taken from incubator
status, will incubator be dropped from the list names and will current
subscribers be ported to the new list?
I don't know. But the change will surely be announced loudly, so that
you will not miss it :)
Kind regards
Regina
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Andrew Pitonyak
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