Hi Peter, Marcus, all Thank you for kicking off the discussion.
> Full Focus: > Windows 10 and 11. This should be our main goal to fully support. Agreed. The x64 build is already the most complete and stable release. Updating from 4.1.16 x86 to 4.5 (or whatever future name) x64 is straightforward without any loss of extensions or settings in the profile. The only exception would be those extensions that are specifically compiled for x86 (such as the Hybrid PDF importer) which seems to be a very marginal problem. > Windows 8.1, and windows 7 with latest service packs. > Here the approach would be best to have a best effort. Agreed (since there are no statistics for the number of AOO users on Win7) But if the x64 installer is updated to work on Win7 all problems (except Python?) are possibly already solved? > No support: > Windows Vista, Windows XP > These are definitly eol. Agreed. But a message should be added in the Download page warning users that for Windows Vista/XP the final version available was 4.1.xx > Currently the installer is win10, I dont think it is a big deal to > downgrade it to win7. > AOO itself is currently still winxp/2k API. I have code to push to > win10, but not for win7. These two really need to match to Win7 (if Win7 is this group's decision) Regarding the 32bit (aka x86) installer and office suite, I have no idea how useful this really is. Microsoft does have a 32bit version of Windows 10 (but not of Windows 11). But where is it used? What proportion of OpenOffice users really need a 32bit Office? > What i dont know is how to deal with our Languages. Should i check if we > could pimp the installer? That would be fantastic. > You download one multilanguage installer, AOO version is always us-en. > And the installer offers a language picker, which downloads the language > file and installs the selected ones. > would save us a lot of release space. That would be perfect. And as an additional touch of improvement: the language installer/pack would include the latest version of the Spell Checker/Thesaurus for the selected language (as currently does the full installer for supported languages) Finally, about the Extensions: the extensions available on the LO website are compatible with AOO (at least dictionaries and all that I am using) and work correctly on AOO x64 too. All the best, Pedro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
