Mechtilde wrote: > Hello Mike, Hello Mechtilde. Thanks for your response.
> Mike Dawe schrieb: >> 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"? > > Because nobody did tests, reported the results what was tested. So > nobody couldn't say, that this version could be released. OK. Even so some kind soul manages to package PPC Mac binaries for every m(n) and RC(n) release and places them up onto good-day.net. No-one in the Mac community is testing these (PPC) binaries for general release? Even though the binaries are prepared as m(n) an RC(n) along with all of the other platform's binaries for general testing - and also into multiple languages test releases? This is rather difficult to believe. Its sort of like this perhaps - "Bums on seats". Or the lack of them. That is, if OOo on their official web pages make it so incredibly difficult to find, or even test or RC release binaries for PPC Mac. How on earth are they going to get some feedback? Any feedback? Its not as though they make it difficult to locate the test binaries for other platforms. At the official web pages for OOo, these PPC Mac test versions that do exist are by and large, invisible. Where is the level playing field here? > As it was happen with the language versions DE FR JA and some others. >> >> 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). >> >> 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. > > The OpenOffice.org Community has decided to release those versions which > are tested and the test results are reported. Was there a "community vote" taken on the decision to obfuscate the availability of PPC Mac test versions for 3.0.x? All the way from m1 to 3.0.1rc2? > The best place to report is the mailinglist [email protected]. Thanks for the link. I will look into doing this, if possible (the possibility of getting past OOo's community anti-ppc voting brigade, that is) :-) >> I currently run OOo 3.0.1 (RC2) for PPC and I can say that it runs very >> well indeed on this Mac. > > Can you send a report what you tested? What report would you like here? It's gone gold for everyone else. That's my report. Same md5sum dumps as on RC2 regardless of file-name change for whatever platform (officially released). PPC Mac users will have to wait for the official release, of course. Hang on, I'm still waiting for the official 3.0.0 US release for PPC Mac... :-( >>> However, you can get it here (scroll down the list below the Intel >>> versions to find the PPC versions): >>> http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/ Thanks, but I don't use 3.0.0rc4 anymore (in your previous paragraph you had asked me for my report on 3.0.1rc2 - I must've gotten 3.0.1rc2 from somewhere?). I had already known about good-day.net via word of mouth in usenet, sadly, not via the OOo official links. Or, if they are there, they are mighty difficult for an OOo *user* using PPC Mac to locate. I have already indicated why I think OOo *should* still show some support for the PPC Mac platform in version 3.0.x. I do not think that OOo should support PPC Mac indefinitely, but I do think that it's current lack of support is premature if not reprehensible, in the short term. And yes, the current RC(n) binaries produced, do run brilliantly on PPC Mac. Or, no more so than on any PC that I currently use whether Linux or MS Windows based. It's not as though (I'm) finding any incompatibility between platform releases yet. OOo version 3.0.x runs very nicely on PPC Macintosh running OS X 10.4.x or later. And if it wasn't for whoever it is that still produces PPC binaries for the m(n) and RC(n) releases up on good-day.net, I would not be able to enjoy the benefits of running OOo vers 3.0.x on a PPC Mac, period. That much I do understand. Regards, Mike Dawe. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
