[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 16:00:20 CEST 2010


On 5 October 2010 15:54, Dale Huckeby <spock at evansville.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>
>> Actually yes, it's one of the - rather rare - cases where upstream,
>> OOo, offers readily installable binary rpms :)
>> (although you have to bear in mind that the openoffice version in the
>> Mandriva repos was the http://go-oo.org/ version, which has a saner
>> build system and is easier to maintain).
>
> Not wanting to be confrontational, just curious. Are "saner build
> system" and "easier to maintain" relevant to the user, which he should
> take into account in making his choice, or are they mainly relevant
> to developers/maintainers?
>
> Thanks,
> Dale Huckeby
>

Mainly for developers/maintainers.

Also go-oo has some features that ooo doesn't have (I can't remember
those off hand), that would be relevant for users.

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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