Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements

2011-09-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Mathias, On 22.09.2011 22:35, Mathias Bauer wrote: Am 21.09.2011 12:07, schrieb Martin Hollmichel: Hi, Am 20.09.2011 12:26, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, [...] I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo

Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements

2011-09-23 Thread Javier Sola
On 9/23/11 2:55 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: I am not recognizing in my mind which service packs are available for which Windows version. I am only repeating Martin here thinking that SP2 was the latest SP for Win XP. Thus, no reason special reason for Win XP SP2. My opinion is that we

Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements

2011-09-23 Thread Javier Sola
On 9/23/11 4:39 PM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Sp2is still widely used and installed in low specs computers in developing countries where no licensed copies of MS exist (and where the use of unlicensed copies of software is not illegal). These computers are a part of OOo's market. Sorry if I am

Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements

2011-09-23 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Yes you are missing something ;-) You are assuming here that MS Windows is better than OpenOffice. In this case it is a wrong assumption. Oooh, good for OOo then. --tml

Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements

2011-09-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 23.09.2011 09:55, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Maybe you mixed unicows.dll with the notorious uwinapi.dll that at least has some value on WinXP, though it's unclear how much. Hm... Why do you think I am mixing unicows.dll with uwinapi.dll? I replied to Martin. :-) Regards, Mathias

consolidation of Windows Build software requirements [was: Re: Introduction and start working]

2011-09-21 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Martin, On 21.09.2011 13:56, Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, I would alse be

Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements [was: Re: Introduction and start working]

2011-09-21 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, Yes, once I have a corresponding patch ready we have to check it on the different Windows platforms. Does the current version of Apache OpenOffice allow the creation of patches and service packs? I don't think so and maybe we should avoid that kind of complexity at this stage, so