Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Patricia; I, for one, appreciate the idea: 80% of the users are Windows people and the project should be focusing on improving the experience on that platform. OTOH, most of the active developers work on UNIX variant (and I suspect FreeBSD is the majority lately). I conceptually

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/17/2016 9:38 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Windows lacks many of the external libraries present on *nix (jpeg, zlib, curl, etc.), meaning we have to build them internally. They build using GNU autotools, which need a *nix shell like Cygwin. In other words, it isn't even only AOO that needs

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-17 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Windows lacks many of the external libraries present on *nix (jpeg, zlib, curl, etc.), meaning we have to build them internally. They build using GNU autotools, which need a *nix shell like Cygwin. In other words, it isn't even only AOO that needs Cygwin, it's our dependencies as well. Also we

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/13/2016 12:56 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 7/13/2016 10:38 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> >> >>> -Original Message- From: Damjan Jovanovic >>> [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > .. >>> By the way, AOO code and build process are very *nix-centric, >>> leading to Windows being such

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/13/2016 10:38 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] .. By the way, AOO code and build process are very *nix-centric, leading to Windows being such a pain to develop for, that we would gain more by dropping Windows

RE: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 00:31 > To: Apache OO <dev@openoffice.apache.org>; Dennis Hamilton > <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) >

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Hammam Alyamani
Hello Dennis Thanks a lot for taking time and explaining in your message. -- Best Regards Hammam Alyamani ham...@fastmail.com On Wed, Jul 13, 2016, at 02:17, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hammam Alyamani [mailto:ham...@fastmail.com] > > Sent:

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Hammam Alyamani [mailto:ham...@fastmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 00:36 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Spam (11.853):null > > > > Hello

Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Hammam Alyamani [mailto:ham...@fastmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 00:36 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Spam (11.853):null > > Hello There > > How is everyone is doing? I hope you are all good. > > I have a suggestion, since there is a