> >Hi, >Am Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:20:23 +0100 schrieb Guy Voets: >> 2007/11/30, C.E. Petit, Esq. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> I'm still in the Windows world, but I'm trying to help a friend install >>> OpenOffice on his brand-spanking-new Mac with Leopard. Unfortunately, the >>> webpage commentary only goes up to Tiger >>> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/x11.html >>> so I'm not certain what download he needs. > >He will need to download the most current version 2.3.0 or wait >till later today when hopefully the 2.3.1 for Mac OS X is also >released. But this depends on the QA of en-US build. > I will have to look at 2.3.1 and see if the problems reported with Base are test errors or actual problems.
>> The rapid answer is that OOo 2.3 runs on Leopard. > >Right. But full Java support will only be available with the >upcomming 2.4.0. If Java is needed make sure to catch one of the >m237 for Mac OS X which can be found here ><ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/SRC680_m237/>. > >Be aware that the m237 may have bugs since this is a non qa'ed >milestone build for testing purpose which isn't recommended for >daily work. Milestone builds, whether QA'd or not, are not recommended for production use as hidden problems may exist and it would not be nice to find out that six hours of your work on a spreadsheet are now worthless. > >> There have been issues about speed and some time-outs, but basically, >> updating Leopard to version 10.5.1 and keeping X11 (or XDarwin as the >> utility is also called now) up to date should solve most worries. > >Timeout issue yes. But you cannot resolve it with updating X11 :-) >But in general it's a good idea to keep your X11 up to date. It's >cool that Apple now releases updates for X11 on a regular base and >tries to solve the remaining issues that occured when switching >from Xfree86 to X.org code base. > I recommend waiting on any update to X11, as this has proven problematic in the past. I also recommend installing the 10.5.1 update only after installing X11 from the Leopard installation disk. There are several issues addressed with the 10.5.1 update that should have not been in the 10.5 release. >> It isn't clear when Apple will provide a bugs free version of X11 for >> Leopard... > >According to the X11 mailinglist an X11 version will either be >included into a OS X update like 10.5.x or as a seperate X11 >update. The most annoying bugs for local use, except fullscreen, >seem to be fixed what's not working a 100% is using X11 for remote >connections. > There are several issues within X11, and some of them are not Apple's fault but rather the methods used to invoke the X session. The standard method of using :0.0 is now a known security risk that is not acceptable. The workaround is to use a random screen session, and this causes issues with OpenOffice.org. However, the Aqua release will not have this problem :) James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
