Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop
On 06/ 8/15 08:33 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org wrote: The real problem is that OI has no community---just people who contribute almost nothing (of course there are brilliant exceptions...) and who are always critical about this and about that. I think partly this is because there's a very high barrier to entry. For example, last I heard building the complete system from source still required access to a closed-source, non-publicly-available compiler. You should update your findings. illumos in meantime cleared almost all closed parts in kernel (if ANY is left, ask illumos guys, not OI). Also par example, everything in OI Hipster is build with gcc, so you can check your findings on that front, too. For documentation, also there is illumos docs and Opensolaris docs (that is by no mean outdated but usefull). So I as of all to stop this thread, because even it is well intended, extending it spreads just more FUD then it serves anything. If you want to use it, do it, if you wand to watch it advance , pick up changes in Hipster: http://hipster.openindiana.org:8080/ and there are 2 channelt on Freenode, #oi-dev and #openindiana , where you can hang, I myself had old /dev 151a3 install (so I can have ZFS v28) updated to a7,a8 and a9 and I managed to install Hipster from 20141010 in Virtualbox, and then sent it to machine's emptied new BE with zfs send (with user dir) , so i have both /dev and Hipster (now in hipster-2015) on same machine and I compiled 915resolution fix. Changes are tested by installing packages from alp's (or some other's) build machine on http://buildzone.oi-build.r61.net:1000/ etc. So there is more then enough space to contribute, code and build machines are hosted on Entic.net, code is also in Github, all you need is to find area to contribute. And contributiion is all that matters. Compaining is usefull just it is more like steering process with ideas, steering it wit at least testing is a start. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice
Thank you for the blog post ! All items in your list of prequirements need to be added to OI userland aside from cppunit 1.13.2 - librevenge-0.0.2 - libwpd-0.10.0 - libwpg-0.3.0 - libmspub-0.1.2 - libwps-0.3.1 - mdds_0.11.2 - libixion-0.7.0 - liborcus-0.7.0 - libvisio-0.1.1 Any players to catch the ball ? I can pick libixion and liborcus. Aurélien On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: as a pointer for people who want to get LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my notes here: http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html Thank you Peter! This will be very useful. You write that LibreOffice is the primary candidate for an office suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice? It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more distros. Not to mention better and wider document format support. Some of the stated goals of the LibreOffice project when they forked were to convert all comments from German to English, and to rip out all Solaris-specific things. I would have guessed that OpenOffice would be easier to build than LibreOffice. All the modernization and refactoring in LibreOffice (and the replacement of the old build system) have made it much easier to build - the old build system was far more rigid and fragile. Anyway, more choice is always good. Having a functional office suite at all has to be good! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- --- LARCHER Aurélien | KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 4, 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN --- ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice
http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html Excellent work! Well done! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice
Could you make a guess at how far your effort would help someone trying to compile and package libreoffice for Solaris 11.2? Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 8 jun 2015 22:50 skrev Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: as a pointer for people who want to get LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my notes here: http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html Thank you Peter! This will be very useful. You write that LibreOffice is the primary candidate for an office suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice? It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more distros. Not to mention better and wider document format support. Some of the stated goals of the LibreOffice project when they forked were to convert all comments from German to English, and to rip out all Solaris-specific things. I would have guessed that OpenOffice would be easier to build than LibreOffice. All the modernization and refactoring in LibreOffice (and the replacement of the old build system) have made it much easier to build - the old build system was far more rigid and fragile. Anyway, more choice is always good. Having a functional office suite at all has to be good! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Hans J Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com wrote: Could you make a guess at how far your effort would help someone trying to compile and package libreoffice for Solaris 11.2? It'll definitely help. The changes I had to make would be necessary on other distros (including Solaris 11); any additional work that might be necessary would be to address missing or downrev prerequisites. as a pointer for people who want to get LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my notes here: http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
