John: Right now there are ten issues that must be 'solved' before even an Alpha build of OpenOffice.org for the Mac will be released. They are major issues, not just small problems that would be 'nice to have'. You are welcome to follow the conversations on either IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #ooo_macport (and the number/pound sign MUST be used) or on the Mac OS X development mailing list.
OS/2 is still technically superior to any version of Windows (there is a batch file that will bring XP and even Server 2003 to its knees as it takes up all of the CPU cycles) in my humble opinion. However, it runs on almost all home PCs here in the United States and many outside of the U.S. Thus all new software is going to be developed for this platform outside of a few 'special' programs which are developed for the Mac. BTW, the Mac port started as a project at Sun and then was abandoned. This gave rise to the NeoOffice.org project with Patrick Luby, Ed Pertilan(sp?), Dan Williams, and many others. They decided to use a Carbon/Java interface after finding out that Cocoa (Apple's native interface development system) did not fit will with the VCL layer of OpenOffice.org and it would take YEARS to build a new interface (that is why we still have VCL as bad as it is.) An effort was started about a year ago to port OpenOffice.org within the project and NOT use Carbon/Java (it is very slow as each command has to go through the Java Interpeter and it takes up a lot of memory and there are other technical issues with running Java programs on any platform) and use, at first Cocoa/ObjC. This team ran into the same issues as the first team, but abandoned this attempt but kept the 'good parts' and moved onto Carbon/ObjC. This program is much faster at loading and when complete will be much easier to maintain and run. BTW, this will also allow the team to use Apple's Integrated Development Engine: XCode to build on, run and troubleshoot. I thought that I would add the history of why there are two different projects for this effort. James McKenzie -----Original Message----- >From: "John W. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 18, 2007 9:46 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice for OS/2 > >James Mckenzie wrote: >> John: >> >> OS/2 still exists. I forget the name it is going by these days and most, if >> not >> all bank branches use this. It is sort of like the death of COBOL. It is >> still >> alive and kicking. >> BTW, I was one of the founding members of TeamOS/2 and would still be using >> it today if it were not for a change of heart of IBM in 1999. At that point >> OS/2 was up to version 4.0, which I helped perform QA on. > >Same here. "The OS/2 Hobbit" was in my sigline for years. (I thought >something a little gentler than all those Blue Ninjas was wanted.) It >took MS until XP for Windows even to approximate OS/2's quality. > >I have finally personally decided to switch to Mac. I'm hoping that OOo >Aqua will be ready by then; in the meantime, I'm making sure that all my >files and programs are portable. (Linux is off the table until Sibelius >makes a Linux version.) > >-- >John W. Kennedy >"The blind rulers of Logres >Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue." > -- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude" > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
