Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:48:38PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> On 4/30/14 1:42 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> A User on en-Forum has posted this: >>> ------------ >>> After receiving notification of the availability of Open Office 4.1.0 > > Where did he get the notification? The update mechanism supported by the > application itself hasn't been activated, AFAIK. > >>> This is only entry on the thread at >>> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=69463 >> >> I agree that this is confusing and we have to improve this. We should >> try to avoid update notifications for older systems but it's not so easy. > > Well, the update feed has a way to tell the application architecture > with inst:arch, so that <inst:arch>X86_64</inst:arch> for MacOSX will be > the same as removing the whole MacOSX entry, because all previous > MacOSX installations are x86; this will of course disable all > notifications for MacOSX. Another alternative is to create a special > page for MacOSX users and add it inst:update, so that user are not > directed to the download page, but this special page explaining the > situation, because > >> It is documented in the release notes > > but we all know no one reads them, the proof is > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119006 for the " Restore > windows problem on Mac OS X" > > Another broken thing in MacOSX are C++ extensions, I have seen any > mention of this in the release notes. > > Ariel;
If you can you point me to any discussion of this problem for MaxOSX I will add an action item to my to-do list to make a mention of this in the release notes for the next release. Regards Keith > Regards >
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