* Francois Tigeot <ftig...@wolfpond.org> schrieb: > Should LO be including 3rd party software to facilitate the work of people who > don't know what they are doing ?
At the cost of everybody else ? (from devs through package/dist maintainers to end users who all have to waste lots of their resources) > > But I do think that somebody running some random old Unix box would prefer > > to get an all-inclusing LibreOffice package. > > Who are these people ? Do they really exist ? Yes, where do they live ? In some deep caves or on high mointains ? I'd really like to know some of these guys ... ;-o > All live platforms have to be proactive in managing software; if you decide > to freeze some old version of a third-party library or program and include > it in LO, this software will suffer from bit-rot, accumulate uncorrected bugs > and security issues. > > You may try to patch it yourself, but this will increase your work and become > unsustainable after a while. > In the end, LibreOffice will become a worse product. That's exactly one of the _major_ problems that made OO so bad and kept possible devs (including myself) away. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
