Re: OS2 code

2021-01-24 Thread Marcus
1 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-23 Thread Steve Lubbs
f so, do have maybe a suggestion what should be changed or added? [1] https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html Thanks Marcus On 1/20/21 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-23 Thread Marcus
s not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last changes he did into our source code; and if he contributes further changes, we will pro

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Lubbs
: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last changes he did into our source code; and if he contributes fu

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last changes he did into our source

RE: Who is the Project? was: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> -Original Message- > From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:45 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Who is the Project? was: OS2 code > > Hello, > > Your question is valis. But the

Who is the Project? was: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Your question is valis. But the answer is might be a little fuzzy. From a formal view an Apache Project needs a PMC with some members and some committers (all PMC members are "committers", but some committers might not be PMC members). But that is not the whole truth, esp. not for the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 19.01.21 22:00, Steve Lubbs wrote: On 1/18/21 6:03 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: The Project does accept bug reports. And Code testing and bug fixing is done by bitworks. That's the part I was missing. Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community bi

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
On 1/18/21 6:03 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: The Project does accept bug reports. And Code testing and bug fixing is done by bitworks. That's the part I was missing. Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community binary version? Who releases the binary OS/

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Peter Kovacs
as far as it is usefull. Removing the OS2 code from future versions is not the same as making it unavailable. It will continue to be available in earlier versions. This can be elucidated on the porting page. Besides the points I've already made, keeping the OS2 code in the reposito

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Steve Lubbs
effort the code will inevitably become stale, including the build. Unfortunately the only way to determine this is to build it and test it which brings us back to some level of maintenance. So please keep the OS/2 code as far as it is usefull. Removing the OS2 code from future versions is not

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Marcus
Am 18.01.21 um 18:42 schrieb Matthias Seidel: Am 18.01.21 um 18:33 schrieb Marcus: Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support the target of the port which

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi, Am 18.01.21 um 18:33 schrieb Marcus: > Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: >> To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this >> context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to >> support the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO >> pr

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Marcus
Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO project. Here are the statements on the page (that ma

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. On the webpage we IMO have to clarify we are not responsible for the OS/2 port and the merits belong to others. But in our code we IMO should do what is in our potentials to support such a port. So please keep the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-17 Thread Steve Lubbs
is tells who the third party doing the port is. ** So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. So a porting organization would need to make changes to the OS2 code that existed at the time OS2 was last supported. It would m

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-10 Thread Marcus
Steve, when you think that the text on [1] leads to the impression that AOO for OS/2 is dead maybe something with the wording is wrong. So, please let us rethink to update the webpage to eleminate this impression. [1] https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html Thanks Marcus Am 10.01.2

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Lubbs
Thanks for correcting me. :-[ On 1/9/21 3:43 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Steve, Where did you get the idea from? ;-) AOO 4.1.8 is released for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems: https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php#AOO I am running it in a VM on ArcaOS 5. https://www.arcanoae.com/ R

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi Steve, Where did you get the idea from? ;-) AOO 4.1.8 is released for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems: https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php#AOO I am running it in a VM on ArcaOS 5. https://www.arcanoae.com/ Regards,    Matthias Am 09.01.21 um 23:40 schrieb Steve Lubbs: > According

OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Lubbs
According to this page, https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html, OS2 is no longer supported. Isn't it time we remove the OS2-specific code from the code base? BTW, OS2 was my favorite OS back in the day. Steve Lubbs