I am not changing anything. I don't think there is any such thing as owning file names and it is too late to claim them now. And that doesn't matter. What matters is the impact on users and on the cost of supporting them with the present arrangement.
- Dennis PS: I am also annoyed by the heavy-handed way that AOO 3.4.0 stomps on existing file associations too. -----Original Message----- From: Juergen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 13:56 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Linux install issues Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012 um 19:32 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: One enduring solution would be to break with the past and not use the same file names for the binary bits, the same registry keys, etc., any longer. That would solve a few problems on Windows too. I think we own the name and we are probably not the project who should change any names. We should be careful with this kind of changes because we can potentially break a lot of existing projects who rely on names, registry entries etc. So please be careful with such changes without deeper analysis what depends in this... Juergen - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:01 To: ooo-dev Subject: Linux install issues Hi all-- It seems we are running into a number of very difficult problems with Linux installs, the latest just e-mailed to this list this morning, due to the way some vendors have installed LO. see: http://markmail.org/message/qz72ouzjvcm7uyfn I'd really like to provide additional help in the install guide: http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html but I'm at a loss as to what this should say. I took a look at SOME of the postings on the support forums and well, still at a loss. Generally, it seems that completely uninstall the old OOo 3.3 is a given (please correct me if I'm wrong about this), but how to handle some of the LO overlap? Can we get some opinions on what's the most accurate way to go about installing AOO 3.4 on linux? * completely de-install LO first? install AOO 3.4, the re-install LO? * completely de-install old OOo 3.3? and then? Thankfully, I did not run into these kinds of issues with my distro. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain
