* Arno Teigseth arnot...@gmail.com schrieb:
For the independent end user it's probably easier just telling
him to install the new package, than installing a packet
management system to his computer.
The unqualified user will get some installer program, which
automatically sets up the package
* Arno Teigseth arnot...@gmail.com schrieb:
- no one wants to make such a system just for libreoffice
- it's more work figuring out the problems that probably will arise from
an upgrade package than actually just installing the newer version of
openoffice.
These would probably be good
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:18 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Or to some other project, dedicated to generic Windows packaging.
(cygwin folks already have done a lot in this area, so that'd
be a good starting point).
Aha I didn't know that existed. As long as the user experience isn't
deteriorated
Hi
This might be the correct list to post this:
A microsoft fanboy/employee complains on a norwegian discussion site
that you have to download the whole openoffice to upgrade or to fix
problems
(guess this applies to libreoffice too)
That is, he's complaining that to go from 3.2 to 3.2.1 he
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Arno Teigseth arnot...@gmail.com wrote:
A microsoft fanboy/employee complains on a norwegian discussion site
that you have to download the whole openoffice to upgrade or to fix
problems
+1
I agree that the idea making small patch / bug fix / enhancement and a
Now, is it possible/interesting to have such a feature, that people can
download fixes (Microsoft would call them hotfixes) to Libreoffice?
hotfixes are a completely different technology, not suitable for upgrades of
large complex software libe OOo or LibreOffice at all.
What exists, and
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 09:25 -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
Now, is it possible/interesting to have such a feature, that people can
download fixes (Microsoft would call them hotfixes) to Libreoffice?
hotfixes are a completely different technology, not suitable for upgrades
of large complex
* Arno Teigseth arnot...@gmail.com schrieb:
I guess it would be different if the whole windows system was set up
with packages, with version controls and this-package-depends-on
stuff. And real super-user privileges that normal lusers could not take
on...
I really wonder why Windows still
* Arno Teigseth arnot...@gmail.com schrieb:
Someone pointed out that on linux, the distribution is (can be)
package-based, so that he would avoid that.
ACK. But that still requires some refactoring of the whole build
process. See the thread on removing 3rdparty packages as a first start.
For
For old legacy platforms like Windows, prefix distros frameworks
like cygwin could be used.
Hopefully you are not serious, just uninformed.
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* Tor Lillqvist tlillqv...@novell.com schrieb:
For old legacy platforms like Windows, prefix distros frameworks
like cygwin could be used.
Hopefully you are not serious, just uninformed.
Actually, I'm think I'm quite well informed, and I'm really
*serious* about this.
cu
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote:
* Tor Lillqvist tlillqv...@novell.com schrieb:
For old legacy platforms like Windows, prefix distros frameworks
like cygwin could be used.
Hopefully you are not serious, just uninformed.
Actually, I'm think I'm quite
* Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org schrieb:
Actually, I'm think I'm quite well informed, and I'm really
*serious* about this.
Windows is not an old legacy platform.
It is. Look at their concepts which are outdated for decades.
cu
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* Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de schrieb:
* Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org schrieb:
Actually, I'm think I'm quite well informed, and I'm really
*serious* about this.
Windows is not an old legacy platform.
It is. Look at their concepts which are outdated for decades.
And look
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote:
* Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de schrieb:
* Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org schrieb:
Actually, I'm think I'm quite well informed, and I'm really
*serious* about this.
Windows is not an old legacy platform.
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 22:36 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
To me it looks a bit ugly, but it could be just a question of replacing
the binaries/files that differ from last version. I don't know enough
about this to say if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm)
Inherently unreliable. The only
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