Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-13 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. I am not a programmer but a user and support person for (now) LO on Windows, Linux and OSX, following development from Star Descktop on OS/2. We are a small business, we used Lotus Approach in place of Access. If a "small database" is required and a user pays for MS Office to gain Access,

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-13 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 3/13/11 6:48 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 12/03/2011 Cesare Leonardi wrote: Others reports that also spellchecking could be affected by the lack of Java. The spell checker and thesaurus functionality does not depend on Java; the grammar checker could be affected, but in this case it depends

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/03/2011 Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Others reports that also spellchecking could be affected by the lack of > Java. The spell checker and thesaurus functionality does not depend on Java; the grammar checker could be affected, but in this case it depends on which extension one is using as a gra

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-13 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> the data base is essential for small biz and medical research. When you say "the data base", I assume you mean OOo/LO Base, as that is what the message you were replying to talked about, not databases in general? (Databases in general obviously are even more essential for "large biz", and any

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Luuk
On 12-03-2011 22:05, Dave Johnson wrote: > > the data base is essential for small biz and medical research. > > Dave Johnson > i would not want my doctor to use this for medical research if my health has to do with it. ;) >> On Mar 12, 2011 1:28 PM, "Tor Lillqvist" >

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Dave Johnson
the data base is essential for small biz and medical research. Dave Johnson On Mar 12, 2011 1:28 PM, "Tor Lillqvist" wrote: > And for Base, who is using that? Maybe you should do a search on our bugzilla for bug reports against it. (Sure, personally I don't think Base makes much sense either,

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> And for Base, who is using that? Maybe you should do a search on our bugzilla for bug reports against it. (Sure, personally I don't think Base makes much sense either, and would gladly drop it. But try telling that to all the people who think it is an essential part of this "suite".) --tml

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 12/03/2011 10:26, Francois Tigeot wrote: For the rest, I believe Java is still needed for some wizards and Base. I can't be 100% sure, these are not parts of LO I'm familiar with. In the past i've tried the Windows version for some times without Java, for very simple tasks and i recall it i

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Luuk
On 12-03-2011 10:26, Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:53:07AM +0100, Luuk wrote: >> On 11-03-2011 18:37, Osama Khalid wrote: >>> I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for >>> Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. >>> >>> Sever

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 09:53:07AM +0100, Luuk wrote: > On 11-03-2011 18:37, Osama Khalid wrote: > > I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for > > Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. > > > > Several components of LibreOffice depend on JRE and

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Luuk
On 12-03-2011 09:53, Luuk wrote: > On 11-03-2011 18:37, Osama Khalid wrote: >> I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for >> Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. >> >> Several components of LibreOffice depend on JRE and I encounter many >> warni

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-12 Thread Luuk
On 11-03-2011 18:37, Osama Khalid wrote: > I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for > Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. > > Several components of LibreOffice depend on JRE and I encounter many > warning message boxes on start up without it,

Re: [Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-11 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:37:29PM +0300, Osama Khalid wrote: > I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for > Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. AFAIK, you can't distribute it freely, the license forbids it. > Several components of LibreOffic

[Libreoffice] Free JRE for Windows?

2011-03-11 Thread Osama Khalid
I tried to find a binary build for the Java Runtime Environment for Windows so I can distribute and install it freely but I couldn't. Several components of LibreOffice depend on JRE and I encounter many warning message boxes on start up without it, so I it's important to make sure that a free vers