Re: [dev] Specification Process Possibilities ... what about a wiki?

2006-10-30 Thread David Fraser
format because it allows us to do some automation which makes it convenient to use. Especially creating complex tables in a wiki is no fun. However, I can offer to create a wiki-version of the new template. Regards, Christian David Fraser schrieb: Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi, Frank Schönheit

Re: [dev] Specification Process Possibilities ... what about a wiki?

2006-10-30 Thread David Fraser
Kohei Yoshida wrote: Hi David, On 10/25/06, David Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This involved developing the spec collaboratively in the wiki Unfortunately the spec team did not like this idea and have gone for an OOo template for designing specifications with Did the spec team discuss

Re: [dev] Specification Process Possibilities ... what about a wiki?

2006-10-25 Thread David Fraser
Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi, Frank Schönheit wrote: However, what I really *really* like about this process is the exchange of ideas and arguments. I respect the process. I encourage community developers and CJK developers to access the spec project wiki [1] and the spec template [2]. For

Re: [dev] Build using Python 2.4

2006-09-07 Thread David Fraser
Because the OpenOffice.org build uses an embedded Python build, which is an older version, and he presumably wants to use newer Python features that aren't in that version. But the UNO packages for Python aren't available separately... David Nathan R. Yergler wrote: Is there a reason you can't

Re: [dev] Re: [documentation-dev] creating Excel files

2006-07-04 Thread David Fraser
Tom Schindl wrote: Dave Calkins schrieb: Niklas Nebel wrote: Dave Calkins wrote: I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file from my app which will be running in a shop floor environment on a machine which would not have MS Office or Open Office installed. Why

Re: [dev] How can I load a JavaScript library in a JavaScript Macro enviroment?

2006-03-29 Thread David Fraser
Luiz, this is a late reply, but I hope you know that OOo does have a Python environment! Should be easy to find on the websites... David Luiz Siqueira wrote: I really not a JavaScript Developer, I'm looking for a way to make Macros more efficiently. With JavaScript I can use OO

Re: [dev] CWS for non-Domain Developer

2006-01-09 Thread David Fraser
to be the right choice without requiring everyone to come up with yet another password but without compromising on security either. The easiest way to keep track of a CWS is to use a Bonsai, as others have rightly noted. Heiner David Fraser wrote: Hi I'm trying to find out what's involved in certain

Re: [dev] CWS for non-Domain Developer

2006-01-09 Thread David Fraser
Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:45:59AM +0200, David Fraser wrote: I was a bit silly to post this just before going on holiday :-) :-) Christian Lohmaier wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:15:40PM +0200, David Fraser wrote: I'm trying

[dev] CWS for non-Domain Developer

2005-12-30 Thread David Fraser
Hi I'm trying to find out what's involved in certain CWSs. Using EIS I can see the issues attached to a CWS but not what actual files have been changed and the changes made. So what I'd really like to do is get a patch that corresponds to all the changes made in that CWS. The cws tools (and

Re: [dev] Building OOo on XP: Problems running ./configure

2005-12-20 Thread David Fraser
Volker Quetschke wrote: Problems: 1 DirectX a) with --with-directx-home=/cygdrive/c/Program/Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2005) I get: checking for DirectX SDK files... configure: error: DirectX SDK files not found, please use --with-directx-home or -disable-directx. Hmmm, did you follow

Re: [dev] Incubator for vba macros

2005-12-09 Thread David Fraser
Noel Power wrote: Hi All, I've contacted Louis and he's reviewed my proposal for a new incubator project. So now I'm asking you, the community to have a look, voice your opinion and help get this off the ground. For a long time now its been recognised that lack of interoperability with vba

Re: [dev] apache ant causes build errors

2005-11-28 Thread David Fraser
Farzaneh Sarafraz wrote: Hi, In the building process of project scripting, there is a command /home/farzaneh/ooo/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/ant -Dbuild.compiler=gcj -Dprj=.. -Dprjname=scripting -Ddebug=off -Doptimize=on -Dtarget=scriptruntimeforjava -Dsolar.update=on -Dout=../unxlngi6.pro

[dev] wiki domain name

2005-11-16 Thread David Fraser
Hi all Great to have the new wiki. Would be even better if it was at http://wiki.openoffice.org/ - is this possible? As an aside, I find it slightly amusing that TWiki got migrated automatically but go-ooo's content which was already in MediaWiki format is being migrated manually ...

Re: [dev] [HOTD] comphelper::sequenceToContainer friends

2005-10-31 Thread David Fraser
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Eike, If DstType and SrcType refer to the same type (which is often the case), using one of Sequence's ctors is faster, i.e. [...] This is a perfectly good example of why a wiki is better for such type of collaborative work than

Re: [dev] openoffice.org wiki

2005-10-28 Thread David Fraser
Ian Laurenson wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:05 +0200, David Fraser wrote: Ian Laurenson wrote: [snip] What I'm proposing is having the files stored in Open Document Format and using Writer as the browser/editor of the information. While I don't have all the details thought

Re: [dev] German *.src / *_tmpl.hrc entries now UTF8 and a flag file in module/prj introduced

2005-10-20 Thread David Fraser
Ivo Hinkelmann wrote: Any objections to treat German as a usual translation language and remove the German entries complete from all resource files in the future? This would be great from my point of view David - To

Re: [dev] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

2005-09-30 Thread David Fraser
cono wrote: David Fraser wrote: And why doesn't there seem to be a source tarball? I tried even looking on the primary mirrors ... anyone know? Rich wrote: which dev build does this rc correspond to ? RC1 is 1.9.130. Greetings, Cor Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, OpenOffice.org

Re: [dev] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

2005-09-29 Thread David Fraser
And why doesn't there seem to be a source tarball? I tried even looking on the primary mirrors ... anyone know? Rich wrote: which dev build does this rc correspond to ? Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has gone from being a Beta to a Release Candidate ..

Re: [dev] dmake pausing in extras on cygwin

2005-09-14 Thread David Fraser
Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi David, I've noticed that dmake appears to freeze when building the extras project (no CPU time consumed, just sits there for a long time). In order to try debug this, I was looking at the command lines of the various processes by looking at /proc//cmdline

[dev] dmake pausing in extras on cygwin

2005-09-07 Thread David Fraser
Hi I've noticed that dmake appears to freeze when building the extras project (no CPU time consumed, just sits there for a long time). In order to try debug this, I was looking at the command lines of the various processes by looking at /proc//cmdline Amazingly, this seems to 'unfreeze'

Re: [dev] dmake pausing in extras on cygwin

2005-09-07 Thread David Fraser
Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi David, I've noticed that dmake appears to freeze when building the extras project (no CPU time consumed, just sits there for a long time). In order to try debug this, I was looking at the command lines of the various processes by looking at /proc//cmdline

[dev] Build getting stuck in icu

2005-09-06 Thread David Fraser
Hi I'm trying to build on Windows. The build is getting stuck building ICU. It says cannot find windows.h I wonder if this is related to the guw.pl errors about not converting -X switches at the top of the log (below). Unfortunately its a bit difficult to debug as cl.exe is being given its

Re: [dev] Build getting stuck in icu

2005-09-06 Thread David Fraser
Volker Quetschke wrote: I'm trying to build on Windows. The build is getting stuck building ICU. It says cannot find windows.h I wonder if this is related to the guw.pl errors about not converting -X switches at the top of the log (below). As include switches are not converted (see guw error)

[dev] Specifications by Wiki

2005-06-10 Thread David Fraser
Hi On issue 12179 I started doing some work and was pleased to see a real OOo developer decide to take it over. However I was quite surprised to read him say Please no implementation before we have a ui spec. ... So please no hacking until we have a spec to see what requirements we have for

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-28 Thread David Fraser
Daniel Carrera wrote: 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)

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread David Fraser
Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote: 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