On 2009/01/24 6:21 PM Mike Dawe wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I'd like to add that it's not easy to find where to download the PPC
(non-Intel) version of OpenOffice.org 3. For some reason, it's not
listed on the downloads page at OOo (only 2.4.0 is listed for PPC).
I need to ask "Why is this so"?
Several reasons.
First: Sun only began officially supporting OO.o on Macs after the
transition was made by Apple to Intel processors. Their developers only
have Intel machines since PPC Macs are no longer made and they can only
do official builds for Intel Macs. PPC Mac builds are available from
Maho on the good-day site.
<http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/>
Second: Each new version of OO.o in each lanquage has to pass the QA
process before it is listed on the official download page. There are
currently listings of Mac PPC 3.0 for Japanese, German, French, Spanish
and Swedish. <http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US>
There is a lack of people doing QA work, especially for Mac PPC. If you
want to get involved see <http://qa.openoffice.org/>
I too have a PPC Mac and have had to locate the ooopackages, which are
not easy to find (at OpenOffice.org main web pages).
Full information on OO.o for Macs is available at the project page.
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/>
Has OOo decided not to support PPC Mac at all? If so, I think that this
lack of support is "untimely". Apple still supports the PPC Macs for the
meantime and I think that OOo should do the same at least as long as
support for this architecture is still coming from Apple.
OO.o still supports PPC Macs. However, since new PPC Macs are
unavailabe, only developers who already own them can do PPC Mac specific
work.
I currently run OOo 3.0.1 (RC2) for PPC and I can say that it runs very
well indeed on this Mac.
Glad to hear that. There were some reports of PPC owners having problem
with OO.o 3.0.0
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." -
Edgard Varese
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