Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
If GStreamer is that problematic to obtain, we could import these 30 symbols that we use from it via run-time dynamic linking. That way we don't need the GStreamer libraries to link against at compile time, only the header files: DF *UND*0060

Re: English Dictionaries gives an error while attempting to download

2018-03-14 Thread Dave Brondsema
Sorry I missed this thread earlier, and just noticed the pointer to it in a mail today. (Being already subscribed to the list, the extra CC to get my attention didn't work, maybe I need to adjust some of my filters). I'll look into this tomorrow. BTW, filing a ticket at

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: GStreamer 1.0.0 requires glib 2.32.0. CentOS 6 ships with glib (package name: glib2) 2.28 as per http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ So this is indeed an issue: we would need a distribution that ships with glib >= 2.32 (without considering other

Re: extension problem

2018-03-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Martin Groenescheij wrote: I forward your mail to the developers list: Error message from Sourceforge: The "/17102/39/dict-en-20..dict-en-20180301.oxt" file could not be found or is not available. Please select another file. This has already been discussed, for example, here (link to dev

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
GStreamer 1.0.0 requires glib 2.32.0. Regards Damjan On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Either we make gstreamer 1.0 an external download dependency, >> so we can continue to build on CentOS6, or else we decide that >> we

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Either we make gstreamer 1.0 an external download dependency, so we can continue to build on CentOS6, or else we decide that we switch to Ubuntu as our "official" build platform for our community releases. Can we define the problem better? I assume the gstreamer license

Re: gstreamer

2018-03-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
I thought the "external download dependency" you were talking about, meant distribution of GStreamer with an AOO release, which is not allowed. Building against GStreamer header files, and then only linking to the GStreamer libraries on the end user's system, if present, sounds allowed ("Can

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Jose R R
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Just a FYI that until we decide on this, 4.2.0-dev is in a holding > pattern... > > Either we make gstreamer 1.0 an external download dependency, > so we can continue to build on CentOS6, or else we decide that > we switch

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:30:06 -0400 Jim Jagielski wrote: > Just a FYI that until we decide on this, 4.2.0-dev is in a holding > pattern... > > Either we make gstreamer 1.0 an external download dependency, > so we can continue to build on CentOS6, or else we decide that > we

Re: Openoffice and unsupported gstreamer 0.10 branch (for openoffice libavmediagst.so library)

2018-03-14 Thread Jim Jagielski
Just a FYI that until we decide on this, 4.2.0-dev is in a holding pattern... Either we make gstreamer 1.0 an external download dependency, so we can continue to build on CentOS6, or else we decide that we switch to Ubuntu as our "official" build platform for our community releases. > On Mar

Re: gstreamer

2018-03-14 Thread Jim Jagielski
All this was discussed in: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/83231a4ff938cdd14c19a01d4ae4f8d185ff7a94e0fc7d47a3b1b7f6@%3Cdev.openoffice.apache.org%3E I don't recall you bringing all this up there. > On Mar 14, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > Why? The

Re: gstreamer

2018-03-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Why? The licence for GStreamer is LGPL, which is Category X. Damjan On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > I think there was general consensus to make gstreamer > a external download dependency. As of this date, this > has not yet been folded in. Who can

gstreamer

2018-03-14 Thread Jim Jagielski
I think there was general consensus to make gstreamer a external download dependency. As of this date, this has not yet been folded in. Who can take point on that? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Status on 4.2.0?

2018-03-14 Thread Jim Jagielski
I've gone ahead and make the AOO 4.2 Release Wiki page for us to start working on it. I propose to take HEAD of trunk and create a -dev developers build for test and "review" by March 16th. I'll sign up for macOS and Linux.