[Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

andré andr55 at laposte.net
Thu Oct 7 04:54:02 CEST 2010


Marc Paré a écrit :
>
> Le 2010-10-06 15:48, Florian Hubold a écrit :
>> Am 29.09.2010 21:12, schrieb Ahmad Samir:
>>> On 29 September 2010 21:57, Michael
>>> Scherer<misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 05:42:48 André Salaün wrote:
>>>>>> OpenOffice or LibreOffice for Mageia ?
>>>>>
>>>> we can have both packages :)
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Michael Scherer
>>>>
>>> Nooo! unless you want the guy maintaining the go-oo/libreoffice
>>> packages to commit suicide :)
>>>
>>> (Imagine having two bears running loose :)).
>> @misc:
>> If you have ever tried to rebuild/package the whole OOo, then you 
>> wouldn't
>> put that out so lightly. Ahmad really has a point there. Full OOo takes
>> up to 24
>> hours building time and space requirements are in the region of 20-35 GB
>> IIRC
>> on a desktop machine.
>>
>> So definitely every OfficeSuite should have at least a small team of
>> maintainers,
>> at least thats my opinion, from having helped Ghiuseppe Ghibo ironing 
>> out
>> some packaging/compiling quirks, that was back with OOo 2.2/3/4.
>> I think it didn't get much slimmer since then.
>>
>> BTW, i'm all for LibreOffice!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Florian Hubold
>
> If you read about who has signed on to the LibO project, it leaves no 
> doubt, that once organized, LibreOffice is the package to offer. You 
> can find the supporters here (more are coming!): 
> http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
>
> I would vote to offer the LibO as is right from the start. It is 
> working well for me, and it looks like they are quite organized, they 
> will have a final product out in no time. They have a lot of user/dev 
> help.
>
> They have discussion groups on Gmane as well as many mailists on the go.
>
> Marc
Looks great to me too.  So far in English.  Thinking of contributing to 
their French translation, once it is organised.

- André (andre999)


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