[dev] Please participate in OpenFormula!

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel Carrera
David Wheeler is asking for help with OpenFormula. Please see his email below. If you are interested in the development of the OpenDocument format, please sign up to the OpenFormula mailing list. This is a very important project and it won't get done on its own. It needs help. Origina

[dev] Re: [native-lang] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Carrera
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] Global Marketing Contacts Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts OpenO

Re: [dev] I want to help programming in the OpenOffice

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Bernd Eilers wrote: > it is always a good idea to start by getting familar with > OOo´s component model UNO, therefor you should have a look at the OOo > Developers Guide, which can be found at the following location: > > http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html If I were C

Re: [dev] I want to help programming in the OpenOffice

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Claudia, Great! Thanks, we need all the help we can get. Though I'm not a developer, I can point you in the right direction. The spread sheet is done in C++. Almost all of OpenOffice.org is C++. The website for the Spreadsheet project is http://sc.openoffice.org/, that's the first place to

Re: [dev] Application

2005-06-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
th bug hunting and testing. Talk to dev@qa.openoffice.org to find out how. Cheers, Daniel Carrera. OpenOffice.org volunteer. Ronald B wrote: Hi, I am intrested in contributing in Open Office project regards, Ronald Borges - To un

Re: [dev] location in source

2005-06-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, It should be in the sw directory. Cheers, Daniel. cgb spender wrote: Hi, I was looking through the OpenOffice source and I can't seem to find the source for the Writer program. If someone could tell me where this is it would be a big help! Thank you very much for your time.

Re: [dev] basic macro to uno package

2005-06-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Ales, I've never made an uno package, but I know of a brief tutorial for making one using *Python*: http://ext.openoffice.org.nz/doku.php?id=cookbook:python_uno_component It's not quite what you want because yours is in StarBasic. But perhaps it'll take you one step forward. Also consi

Re: [dev] Openoffice Branding.

2005-06-21 Thread Daniel Carrera
Dinesh Varadharajan wrote: I am embedding openoffice component along with my application. I want to do branding. ie.. remove openoffice.org and use my product name instead. Is this allowed as part of licensing and if so, how can I do that.. Well... it's allowed, but a lot of us really really

Re: [dev] File format internals...

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel Carrera
I only have limited knowledge of the file format, but I'll tell you what (BI think: (B (B> (B> (B> a standard way to insert a line break (the equivalent of in html) ? (B (B is the actual line break. The rest is just the (Bcharacter style, which in this instance is redundant because t

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
Mathias Bauer wrote: So we invested quite some time for the JRE plugin framework solely(!) to support the integration of other JREs than the one we usually ship, and we did that only to support free[TM] ones. I think this pure fact should convince people that we are taking this serious and that we

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-12 Thread Daniel Carrera
Mathias Bauer wrote: That's nice to read. Scott Carr had suggested this in an e-mail he sent to RMS (thanks to Scott!). Yeah, thanks Scott! It makes me happy to hear that pragmatism is more widespread than it could be expected from the statement that started this discussion. It's easy to forget. RM

Re: [dev] OpenOffice.org Windows Installer: Too slow, huge

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Anton, > Why are you so sure your installer is as powerful as OO.org is? The NSIS installer is well known, and it is definitely open source, and quite superior to MSI. In addition to everything Dan listed, I'd like to add that NSIS includes superior compression (LZMA - of 7-zip fame). > Is it op

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Sophie Gautier wrote: As I havn't seen this link pointed yet here, may be you'll be interested in this initiative called Apache Harmony http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200505.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a bit more: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/350

Re: [dev] Future of source - OOo

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Carrera
Recoding OOo into C# seems like a lot of work, and I'm not sure what the point of it would be. Running it under Mono? Mono is not exactly known for speed. I don't think it's ready to handle something like OOo. I think it makes more sense for someone (you?) to make a Mono-UNO bridge so people ca

Re: [dev] Re: Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-10 Thread Daniel Carrera
Stephan Bergmann wrote: There are still uses of Sun-specific classes (I know about uses in module sandbox, at least). Feel free to fix this. :) I don't have the skill to fix this. I do, however, work very hard on other areas where I do have the skill to contribute. But the fact that I don't kn

Re: [dev] Re: Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-10 Thread Daniel Carrera
Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: The only difference I can see is that the OOo 2.0 tree seems to require JDK 1.4.X or later as its baseline. (There are a number of java projects that require JDSK 1.4.X or higher to work). Indeed, the database wizards don't work on 1.3.1. :-( Question: Do the free JVMs

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
vy.ho wrote: JBoss is just an example of their argument. Forking is fine with me too on open source stuff. However, the reason behind it ("because it runs on Java") does not sound right to me. It doesn't sound right to me either. I think that energy would be better spent on one of the free Jav

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
shouldn't make our lives difficult by dwelling about what RMS might have in mind. Just let him do whatever. This doesn't have to be a big deal if we don't make it one. I hope that's better. I apologize if I conveyed the wrong message. Best, Daniel. Daniel Carrera wrote: vy.ho wrote: S

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
vy.ho wrote: Should they fork JBoss because it runs on none-free Java too? If they want to spend their time forking JBoss, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Let them be. If they want a none-free Java, create one, not OOo. And don't steal Sun's property. Create one, not asking Sun to gi

Re: [dev] Fwd: FSF to fork OOo over java

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: I thought people might be interested in this link. It seems the RMS wants to fork OpenOffice.org due to its reliance on JDK. I'm interested to see how it turns out. Some forks can revitalize a project (e.g. X.org) and others are abysmal failures. Needless to say, it's

Re: [dev] UNO package dependencies?

2005-05-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
Stephan Bergmann wrote: But if you create a new UNO runtime environment for Haskell (which should be possible, for example using GHC's ccall) this would probably consist of more than just a bunch of UNO services. Ok. Here's another thought. Haskell programs can be compiled. So, the only overhead

[dev] UNO package dependencies?

2005-05-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi all, Quick question. Does UNO have a mechanism for handling package dependencies? For example, suppose I really like Haskell and write a UNO package than provides Haskell bindings (btw, is this possible?). Then I proceed to write several neat and useful packages using Haskell. So all of these

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
David Fraser wrote: Maybe I'll talk to the Monotone people. And maybe to the bazaar people. I saw a note from the developer saying that bazaar-ng seemed to handle the Linux kernel fine Seeing this is all experimental research, that may be one worth looking at even though its still in early develo

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ken Foskey wrote: I want to write a proposal on implementing a replacement for CVS so I have been spending some time learning about this stuff. I asked at the Darcs mailing list (I didn't say I was "from OOo" or anything :) about its scalability. This is what they say: a) Darcs scales very well f

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Martin Hollmichel wrote: I'm wondering what this discussion is about. * what actual problem we do have with the current CVS setup now, which of these problem do we really need to adress urgently ? None, really. I'm just experimenting with something interesting. * indeed distributed SCM tools are

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: Darcs did not ask me to generate an RSA key like Monotone. I wonder if Darcs comes with other means for signing packages. I'm sure there must be something. Maybe they have hooks to GPG :-) I like GPG. Yup, it uses GPG. Cheers, D

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: Incidentally, I took a second look at Darcs, and actually it's just as easy to install as monotone. That is, there's a self-contained binary available for most platforms. I just missed that link the first time. Incidentally, here's a link: http://www.darc

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ken Foskey wrote: It seems that you got the idea of having childworkspaces :) Correct me if I'm wrong, but childworkspaces still touch the central server, they just operate on a private branch... Yes, you are correct. The concept of the new SCM tools are a fundamental shift in the way you work.

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Subversion is certainly not a bad choice. It's a bit difficult to compile/install, but it's possible to find precompiled binaries for almost all platforms. What do you think of the de-centralized SCMs ? I kind of like the idea of just grabbing my own branch and playing

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Naber wrote: On Tuesday 26 April 2005 10:50, Daniel Carrera wrote: Subversion even requires Apache! No, it doesn't: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#apache-extension In that case, I'm glad I asked here :-) But it's still hard to setup, right?

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ken Foskey wrote: CVS is fine for small centralised projects. It is really awful for larger open source projects. Even on a small project, not being able to rename a file is really really annoying. I hate the idea of losing file history because I decided to change its name. And I don't like the

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Darcs' "theory of patches", and the commands seem less verbose. Darcs also seems very portable, it's just Solaris that's a pest. In any event, monotone got installed on my sysem first, so I'll be using that for this project. When I have a new project, I'll try to i

[dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi all, This is just one of those "Daniel is curious" questions :-) What are your thoughts on CVS? Most OOo developers are Sun developers. What SCM do you use at Sun? CVS is sort of the de-facto standard in the FOSS world, but I also know that it's a bit old and doesn't do the things that modern

Re: [dev] Issue 4925

2005-04-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Abe, Disclaimer: I am not a developer. I don't have the skill to fix this issue. First, so you don't take things the wrong way, let me explain that OOo does not use the words "BUG" and "Enhancement" the way you use them in every day life. This is an internal classification system. If the s

Re: [dev] Help with Free Software Magazine

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ken Foskey wrote: At the OOo miniconf at linux.conf.au there was a process to merge in documentation into a template. It avoided XML (There are traps to this...) I've been hacking at it, and the project looks doable. Mostly because Tony's file format is not complicated, and because he doesn't wan

Re: [dev] Help with Free Software Magazine

2005-04-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Tony Mobily IMAP wrote: Just out of curiosity, what you are interested in is a set of Perl libraries you can 'require' and that can handle this conversion, right? Will this program run on a standard Linux/Unix environment? Yep. Well, or *anything* really. Perl is convenient for me. I'll give it a

Re: [dev] Help with Free Software Magazine

2005-04-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello Tony, This is Daniel Carrera (new email address). Just out of curiosity, what you are interested in is a set of Perl libraries you can 'require' and that can handle this conversion, right? Will this program run on a standard Linux/Unix environment? You know, with command-line

[dev] Re: [discuss] Re: IRC Talk - Software Patents.

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Carrera
at Noon * Tel Aviv Sat 6:00 PM * Beijing Sat 10:00 PM * Tokyo Midnight. * Canberra Sun 1:00 AM For more timezones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want

Re: [dev] Issue Confirmation

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Michael, since you are not subscribed to the list, you probably didn't get this email from Joerg, one of the developers. See below. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:12:43PM +0200, Joerg Barfurth wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: > >You filed the issue under the componen

Re: [dev] Issue Confirmation

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
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Re: [dev] Save as PDF?

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
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Re: [dev] Does 'python macro' function depend on JRE?

2005-03-29 Thread Daniel Carrera
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Re: [dev] Gulls in SVG

2005-03-29 Thread Daniel Carrera
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[dev] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [dev] VBA Macro Conversion Request]

2005-03-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
teachers around the world who fit into this category) to download the OpenOffice suite so that they can utilise the macros. What do you say? Am I making a complete fool of myself by sending such a brazen request to a mailing list of serious professional developers, or what? Chris www.teachers-pet.o

Re: [dev] ANNOUNCE Perl OpenOffice::OODoc 1.206

2005-01-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
e the new primary format for OOo, KOffice and IBM Workplace. -- Daniel Carrera| There is no urge so great as for one man to Join OOoAuthors today!| edit another man's work. http://www.oooauthors.org | -- Mark Twain --

Re: [dev] Fwd: OOo suggestion regarding .tgz

2005-01-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
ss and safety (to reduce the chance of overwriting a file a user didn't want over-written). Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera| There is no urge so great as for one man to Join OOoAuthors today!| edit another man's work. http://www.oooauthors.org

[dev] Fwd: OOo suggestion regarding .tgz

2005-01-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
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