The only reason I asked was just out of curiosity, as I saw it in the store (though unfortunately it won't fit on my 4GB SD that came with my kit - time to think about running from USB I think)
Thanks for the clarification of the term "fork". At first I thought a fork was when someone took the code of another app and changed it to work with their needs (In this case converting x86 code to ARMv6 / ARM11) On 21 Mar 2013 09:34, "Mirosław Zalewski" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/03/2013 at 22:20, Kieran Peckett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just a quick question: Is the version of LibO on the Pi Store (an app > store > > for the Raspberry Pi's Rasbpian distro) an official build supported by > TDF > > or is it a fork of LibO? > > It's hard to tell. It depends of your understanding of "official" and > "fork". > > They are not "official" in the meaning that TDF does not provide arm build > of > LO. That also means that .debs downloaded from TDF site will not work on > your > Raspberry Pi. > > But they are not "fork" either, as they don't have separate branding, their > own website, team of developers or any new features. > > In fact, these are binary packages build on Debian infrastructure from TDF > sources, with some downstream (Debian-specific) patches. Such patches > usually > provides better integration of program with distro-specific tools or fixes > compilation errors on architectures not supported by upstream, but > supported > by distro (and Debian supports nine architectures, while TDF only two). > Sometimes they also provide features or fixes from newer version of > software; > but as far as I am aware, Debian LO maintainers tend to not backport > anything. > > Another question is: what does it change, if packages are "official"? It's > not > that TDF provides any commercial user support anyway. > -- > Best regards > Mirosław Zalewski > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
