Forwarding to the OP, whose original message got moderated. ----- Forwarded message from Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> -----
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:23:39 +0200 From: Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Will there be an "official" Solaris build? Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 On 9/12/12 7:46 PM, David A Criswell wrote: > > "RGB" at the AOO Community Forum encouraged me to bring my question here... > Thanks > > > > > > Will there be an "official" Solaris build? I don't say no and I don't say yes and will try to explain that. At Apache a group of volunteers are working on the source code and drive the development of OpenOffice. And because of the history of OpenOffice we also provide binary releases for convenience of our users for the 3 most popular platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS) where we had enough volunteers from the beginning. FreeBSD is also an active port as well as Solaris and OS/2. But we don't provide binary releases yet. But this can change in the future. Important is not only the port and the build but also a group of volunteers who can ensure the testing and QA of such a binary. That doesn't mean that the binary packages for other platforms don't have the same quality but we would like to ensure that we can guarantee this in some way. That means that a decision if we provide a binary package for a new platform or not is driven by the community and the community members who drive this forward. That means for example if you and some others can join the Solaris group and can help to ensure some testing and QA it is likely that we can provide binary releases for Solaris as well. For FreeBSD the people working on the port are providing a binary package via the official FreeBSD distribution channel that is build on the same release version as the official builds were built on and where it is possible to download the source release and build the office on your own. Some other people working on the Solaris port and providing a binary package built on the same release version. And you can download it from their own webpage. See http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ To ensure a minimum of guarantee a binary package have to be built on the same source release version and should come from a trusted source. In case of the Solaris package I would say that Adfinis SyGroup is a trusted source. The ports are part of our project and we work close together and help to solve potential problems on these platforms. I would be happy to support platforms "officially" but it really depends on the community and the active people who doing the work on this platform. In case of Solaris I am sure that we can ensure this over time. I hope this helps and it is only my personal opinion and others have potentially a different opinion on this. Juergen > by gpspilot » Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:58 pm > RGB wrote:You can find non official Solaris builds for AOO 3.4 here: Apache > OpenOffice Solaris x86 > > My organization had StarOffice on our Solaris workstations for many years, > then upgraded to OpenOffice 3.3, and now we'd like to upgrade to AOO 3.4, but > our administrators are leery of installing "non official" builds. > > Has Apache dropped support for Solaris? My googling has not turned up any > official announcement of this. Can we hope to see Solaris make a reappearance > at http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html? > > According to > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53698#p234768, > as of four months ago there were only two "major" bugs in the Solaris build, > and one of them has been fixed. So it sounds like the current Solaris build > is of good quality. Why wouldn't Apache adopt it as an officially-supported > platform? > > I think we Solaris users deserve to know the "roadmap" for where AOO is > heading. > > Thanks > > > OpenOffice 3.3 on Solaris > > > > Re: Will there be an "official" Solaris build? > by RGB » Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:08 am > AFAIK, at the moment there are some technical problems... like the lack of a > proper build environment. > > You'll get better answers on the dev mailing list > > ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > > no need to subscribe to send an email there (the traffic is huge...), but if > you send your question without subscribing, please make the situation clear > on the first line of your email so people could know they need to add you to > the CC list. > > > There are two types of people: the ones that believe that there are two types > of people and the ones that not. > > openSUSE 11.4 with KDE SC 4.8.4 / AOO 3.4.1 > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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