Hi :) There is no conflicting advice. Everyone is saying exactly the same thing but perhaps it's not being made clear enough. It is not worth putting the vast amount of effort required into fixing the trivial issue that almost no-one experiences and that has a simple work-around anyway.
There is a guide on how to install multiple versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice and possibly other products developed from the original StarOffice over the last decade or so. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel The guide is a work-around because a careless, straight install of both occasionally causes intermittent clashes on some machines in certain situations. However, the problems are RARE and only seen in a tiny percentage of systems that have multiple instances installed. At worst the problems do not cause any harm to data or security (except to cause one of the programs to close unexpectedly). They don't open any vulnerabilities in the programs nor in other programs nor in the Operating System. Fixing it requires a major re-write of the code that has been developed over the last 10years or so and if done hastily without proper and considerable planning could cause major breakages. It's not something to rush and is not something that can be sorted over-night!! LibreOffice devs are working at the first step in the process towards sorting it. The work was not supported in OpenOffice although Sun had begun the planning process. So far that first step, being done by LibreOffice devs, has taken an average of over 100 devs over 6 months. Various other benefits have been gained from that, such as tighter, faster, more secure (more stable) code. Code and functionality from other forks have been integrated into the main branch. Other functionality and developments added. Ancient bug-reports have been and are being solved along with newer issues. The program size has been drastically reduced with benefits in download size, install times and general efficiency. So it's NOT trivial, it IS being worked on and there is a simple work-around http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel to prevent the RARE instances of a non-harmful problem which occasionally arises under circumstances that the vast majority of users would NOT experience. If people do ignore all the advice and then fail to read the simple guide that keeps on being pointed to for the very tiny number of people that want to try running both at the same time then there is a high chance they still wont encounter any problems. IF they do (and that is a big IF) then usually turning off the Quick Start in OpenOffice (not LibreOffice) and not opening both at the same time is enough to make sure the minor issue doesn't happen again. It is not worth putting the vast amount of effort required into fixing the trivial issue that almost no-one experiences and that has a simple and reasonably well-publicised work-around anyway. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: aqualung <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 24 June, 2011 9:59:33 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people Ernest Kurtz wrote: > > Thank you, Alex. Is there any possibility of having an LO Mac list? This > list is deluging my mailbox with queries foreign to my needs and > experience. > The OpenOffice.org community forum does have a http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=17 Mac-specific section as well as a http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=101 LibreOffice section , and we welcome queries from Mac people and LibO people. I recently started a thread about having http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Side-by-side-install-of-LibO-and-OOo-tp3078835p3078835.html LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org coexist on a computer. I am hearing conflicting stories about this, some people say they have both with no trouble, others talk about serious interference between the two. I believe this situation should be addressed very soon, as it is unacceptable for one program to demand that you uninstall another first, which is the advice given in the LibreOffice 3.3.3 Release Notes. Any suggestions on how to capture developers' attention and convince them of the seriousness of the matter are welcome! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Mac-people-tp3092380p3103351.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
