Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-02 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 9/28/12 9:48 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi, On 27.09.2012 23:50, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: snip Ah, I just had an idea. Google Analytics tells us how many users are running Windows 2000. It gets that info

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why nothing has happened here yet. This is one example of several where issues seem to be discussed at length, but nothing ever happens. 1)

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why nothing has happened here yet. This is one example of several where issues seem to be

Re: What do we say about Binaries, Packagers and Distributors? [Was Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000]

2012-09-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: I think the topic has change to one that is important to discuss in advance of graduation. On Sep 29, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am

Re: What do we say about Binaries, Packagers and Distributors? [Was Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000]

2012-09-30 Thread RGB ES
2012/10/1 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com Maybe at some point we could craft something similar like, Apache OpenOffice project (podling) provides releases in two forms, binaries which run on: Windows 7, XP and Vista. [reasons why these particular versions, state prerequisites]

Re: What do we say about Binaries, Packagers and Distributors? [Was Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000]

2012-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:57 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/1 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com Maybe at some point we could craft something similar like, Apache OpenOffice project (podling) provides releases in two forms, binaries which run on: Windows 7, XP and Vista.

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. I understand it in this way, that you suggest to delete the Windows 2000 support

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-29 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/29/2012 10:27 PM, schrieb Wolf Halton: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. I understand it in this way, that

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/29/2012 10:27 PM, schrieb Wolf Halton: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than to

What do we say about Binaries, Packagers and Distributors? [Was Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000]

2012-09-29 Thread Dave Fisher
I think the topic has change to one that is important to discuss in advance of graduation. On Sep 29, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/29/2012 10:27 PM, schrieb Wolf Halton: snip We don't have to make

Re: What do we say about Binaries, Packagers and Distributors? [Was Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000]

2012-09-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: I think the topic has change to one that is important to discuss in advance of graduation. On Sep 29, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-28 Thread O.Felka
Ah, I just had an idea. Google Analytics tells us how many users are running Windows 2000. It gets that info from the browser agent header in the HTTP requests. If I look at all website visits since AOO 3.4.0 was released the breakdown for Windows users is: 758.83% XP29.74% Vista

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-27 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. I understand it in this way, that you suggest to delete the Windows 2000 support from the webpages and therefore cancel any support somewhat silently. Is

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-27 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/27/2012 05:11 AM, schrieb Fernando Cassia: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Stuart Swales stuart.swales.croftnu...@gmail.com wrote: Also, moving to Visual Studio 2010 will likely kill off running on Windows 2000 (and Windows XP prior to SP2). The Visual C++ run-time library now uses the

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline operating system. I though I remembered

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-27 Thread Ji Yan
Recently, I didn't see anyone testing our product on Windows 2000, at least as I know active QA are not doing any testing against this platform, therefore can we say we have no former testing on this platform. And if any user report a Win2K special issue, what's priority to us to fix it?

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-26 Thread Wolf Halton
I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. Are we claiming to support win98se? or winME? Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Sep 24, 2012 7:06 AM, Stuart Swales stuart.swales.croftnu...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Stuart Swales stuart.swales.croftnu...@gmail.com wrote: Also, moving to Visual Studio 2010 will likely kill off running on Windows 2000 (and Windows XP prior to SP2). The Visual C++ run-time library now uses the EncodePointer function which was introduced in XP

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-24 Thread Stuart Swales
On 23/09/2012 23:51, Kay Schenk wrote: On 09/16/2012 09:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sep 16, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On 09/16/2012 09:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sep 16, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO

Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline operating system. I though I remembered some discussions a while back on this list around that subject and thought we had

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Joost Andrae wrote: Hi, I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline operating system. I though I remembered some discussions a while back on this list around that subject and thought

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline operating system. I though I remembered

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: And if Microsoft does not make Windows 2000 CD's available to developers for testing, due to a lawsuit, then it is rather difficult for anyone who wants to test. You can get a boxed unopened Windows 2000 on eBay from $12 to

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/16/2012 11:35 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I've still a VM with this. But what all should be tested to truthfully write tested with Windows 2000? ;-) I´ve got a Win2K vm too, haven´t attempted a AOO install. However one point to keep in mind is that for Win2K to

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/17/2012 01:34 AM, schrieb Fernando Cassia: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I've still a VM with this. But what all should be tested to truthfully write tested with Windows 2000? ;-) I´ve got a Win2K vm too, haven´t attempted a AOO install.

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many still are showing that we support Windows 2000 as a baseline operating system. I though

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sep 16, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings All; I was going through FAQ's and other pages on the AOO (incubating) site and noticed that many