On Tuesday 09 October 2007 13:49:36 Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:52:35 -0400 > > James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that the Fedora > > > > > packagers pack the 64-bit version of OO but they only ship > > > version 2.2 and not 2.3. Why I don't know. Do you know the > > > reason for this policy or do 64-bit users have to compile the > > > source? > > Fedora generally moves to the next major version of a given > software package as part of the next major Fedora release. I > expect that OO 2.3 will be included in F8 when it's ready.
The reason the version of OpenOffice.org runs one release behind in Fedora is because the Fedora team goes through everything checking for free to use code before putting it in the distro release. Redhat/Fedora take a no questionable code in the distro release position. Questionable meaning is there a question as to the license of the code. Is there a potential copyright or patentant issue? If they think there is questionable code they strip that code and rework whatever they need to to make the application still work but without the questionable code. I knew there were a lot of apps that fedora does not ship and there are some that have some code stripped. The problem is no one outside of the Fedora group knows all of it because there is talk about it being better not knowing because of the legal issues if one is dragged into court. When I learned that Fedora strips out some very useful functionality from OpenOffice.org, I decided I was done reworking fedora apps to make the distro work the way I wanted it to work so I found another distro that I really like and after four years using Fedora I dropped it. -- http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
