On Sunday 19 November 2006 4:30 pm, CPHennessy wrote: > On Sun November 19 2006 17:04, Fred Moore wrote: > [snip] > > > I elected to support the OO fork of StarOffice.. Novell (suse), Neo, etc. > > forked OO so support is their problem not mine.. Fred > > Fred if you follow OOo development you will see that > Novell/Debian/RedHat/Mandriva and others all work on the same patches > (together!!) . This code is slowly merged with the official Openoffice.org > code, where the bottle neck is on the OOo side not the distributors side. > Further to that some of the options are more relevant when you are building > a version of OOo for your own platform where you can specify that OOo > should use the systems version of various libs ( zlib, jpeg, npr, etc) > instead of the ones built into OOo.
I would agree with you except for several things. 1) you can not guarantee that each and every fix, or improvement created by other vendors is installed into OO intact (ie no code change). OO developers do cherry pick code fixes and enhancements.. I do understand that developers from other orgs are involved in the process.. Once an enhance or code fix is put into anothers code and not put into OO all bets are off forever.. 2) you also can not guarantee that the vendors modify code (which might or might not have been accepted into OO intact, which may or may not have been enhancement code) is not building new code thay installed that may or may not be installed in OO base intact. 3) building for your own platform does not change the base code you are compiling from, it changes the prereqs for proper compulation. Been there too many times in the past. It is not possible in all cases to troubleshoot a problem unless 1) The person who is having the problem is running the exact code base the developer troubleshooting the problem is using or 2) The developer fixing the problem can run older libraries to understand the problem and understand what is needed to resolve it. There are just too many variables here.. Many times here I have looked at a problem on my system here (I only run released code) only to see a post later that they were running older, or someone elses modifyed stuff.. BTW I only look at problems under linux as I don't run any closed source stuff here at all.. Sorry but just don't agree with you it is good in theory.. I have a limited time to assist with OO and to attempt to track where code came from and what code is being used other than the standard naming convention and the OO released code base is something I am just not willing to do in this phase of my life.. Already done this more than most.. not willing to do it again.. Just my thoughts.. .. Fred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
