Re: Some stats and observations on OpenOffice upgrades

2012-09-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/09/12 07:11, Reizinger Zoltán a écrit : Hi all, Many public administrations in France, e.g. schools/colleges, town/city halls that would have had OOo 3.3.x have not upgraded en masse : either they have switched / are slowly switching to LO, or else they are waiting for a feature complete ve

Re: MySQL native Connector not working on fresh 3.4 install

2012-06-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/06/12 13:32, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, > I understand your point, but can you tell way The connector works in OO > 3.4 when it was installed under 3.3 and not from fresh 3.4 install ? > Everyting must been still in place, only some configuration has to been > done i suppose ?

Re: MySQL native Connector not working on fresh 3.4 install

2012-06-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/06/12 11:58, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, > I know you are right person to discuss this, your point is that the > extension needs a recompile against the latest versions. You probably do > it for some platforms, but not for Windows ? I no longer build it for anything other than my

Re: MySQL native Connector not working on fresh 3.4 install

2012-06-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/06/12 10:26, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, > But when installing a fresh 3.4 on Windows, the Native Connector > installs without complains, but when opening the connection, there is a > error saying there is no Driver found on the given URL. > Please can someone help us to repair thi

Re: How Can My Business Use OpenOffice Base?

2012-06-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/06/12 18:42, Cynthia Woo a écrit : Hi Cynthia, Your question to me sounds like you are looking for a consultant to help you out with your database logic. You might find one on this list, but it is probably not the primary place to be looking. Volunteer help can be found here, and on the o

Re: [EXT] Oracle MySQL connector (was Mac OSX, Mysql native connector extension, and crashes)

2012-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 27/05/12 18:51, Ariel Constenla-Haile a écrit : Hi Ariel, > If the bug is on the extension itself, AOO developers could fix the C++ > code that was granted by Oracle to the ASF, but we cannot build it nor > relase it: the extension relies on LGPL (the C++ connector) and GPL (the > C connector

Re: [ANNOUNCE] IBM SGA/CCLA Submitted for Symphony Source Code Contribution

2012-05-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/05/12 09:26, Yue Helen a écrit : Hi Helen Yue, > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Contribution > > Here you can find a document to describe what's inside this code > contribution, by highlighting some additional features beyond what's in > Apache OpenOffice 3.4. The feature list

Re: Link to RSS or Atom update feed

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/05/12 15:51, Rob Weir a écrit : Hi Rob, > > Our project blog is here: > > http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ > > Atom feed is: > > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/feed/entries/atom Oh thanks, not really what I was looking for, but better than nothing. > > Generally, important announcements wi

Link to RSS or Atom update feed

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Is there anywhere I can find a link to an RSS or Atom update feed ? I want to include a link to announcements made about AOOo releases. I tried looking around the website, but I didn't seem to be able to find anything immediately obvious. Any pointers gratefully received. Alex

Re: Hi I hava a question about how to use VBA language on the Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/12 10:26, 史周波 a écrit : Hi Robert, > Hi all, > I am researching how port the App for windows to Linux. > I meet a question about how to use the VBA language in AOO on the Linux? The short answer is : you can't. The long answer is that you will have to rewrite your VBA in StarOffice/OOo

Re: [EXTENSIONS]Alternative for Report Builder?

2012-04-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/04/12 22:00, Ariel Constenla-Haile a écrit : Hi All, > That is, someone has to build them (and maintain them) as external > projects. And that someone will find that, at least insofar as the MySQL connector extension is concerned, it will have to be built for each distrib and bit-type arc

Re: Reg:issue with password protection

2012-03-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/03/12 15:06, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : All, > > The very same question was posted on the developer list (where it > belongs) yesterday or the day before, I suggest you follow the thread there. > Sorry, my bad, I should have mentioned that the same question was p

Re: Reg:issue with password protection

2012-03-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/03/12 13:18, srinivas gopu a écrit : Dear Srinivas, >I tried to password protect on my open office document and that > contains images and text > and then tried to open that document by giving password and while > opening it is creating temp file for document and temp file for > i

Re: Files replaced by hashes, let's face it

2012-03-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/03/12 22:47, Hagar Delest a écrit : Hi Hagar, > NB: not sure if LibO has inherited this problem too but I guess so > according to a quick Google search: > http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org/msg19017.html Yes, the problem has been raised also on some of the L

Re: [Mac OS X, Intel] some issue with Apple remote

2011-11-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/11/11 14:11, eric b a écrit : Hi Eric, Good luck, if you're going to run gdb/valgrind on it :-)) It took me nearly half an hour just to complete the test of this on LO. Oh and paradoxically, I couldn't get it to crash with valgrind runnning. If you are interested, and if it is of any use,

Re: Report Builder extension (was Re: [proposal] development for the first AOO release)

2011-11-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/11/11 16:16, Pedro Giffuni a écrit : Hi Pedro, Ariel, Oh I understand perfectly well why it is being done in this way, I make my living out of intellectual property so I would be the first one to say "IP clearance takes precedence" in line with the rules that Apache has. I also understand

Re: Report Builder extension (was Re: [proposal] development for the first AOO release)

2011-11-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/11/11 17:19, Pedro Giffuni a écrit : Hi Pedro, > My attempt to contact Pentaho concerning this extension > produced no result. I consider this extension orphaned > and I think it should be moved elsewhere out. This is most unfortunate. Without a report building module of some kind, all th

Re: [Mac OS X, Intel] some issue with Apple remote

2011-11-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/11/11 09:09, eric b a écrit : Hi all, Whether of interest or not, it is a known issue on LibreOffice with at least the white AppleMotes, not sure if the newer brushed metal ones are also affected : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33816 I couldn't see any problem with my versi

Re: Report Builder extension (was Re: [proposal] development for the first AOO release)

2011-11-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/11/11 12:09, Ariel Constenla-Haile a écrit : Hi all, > If yes, then you should also remove the --enable-report-buider option > from configure. > Now, if you pass this switch to configure, the build breaks in all the > dirs. where the makefile.mk tries to include > $(SOLARBINDIR)/jfreerepo

Re: MacOS X Lion compatible

2011-11-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/11/11 11:58, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : > > Are do the plist files have the same name and are they stored in the > same place ? Forget that question, a search in Finder reveals that the plist files also have different names. Alex

Re: MacOS X Lion compatible

2011-11-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/11/11 22:18, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : Hi Thorsten, > LibO uses ~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice (not > OpenOffice.org) - please don't jump to conclusions just yet. Beyond > that, we always welcome patches to make LibreOffice even more > distinct. :) > Are do the plist files hav

Re: MacOS X Lion compatible

2011-11-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/11/11 19:17, FR web forum a écrit : Hi all, > The user has given me some details to reproduce. > This seems appear when LibO is already installed. > If you add OOo, the install process try to retreive the LibO profile > The problem is fixed if LibO is uninstalled. > There is a report her

Re: GStreamer avmedia plugin as copyleft?

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/10/11 21:07, Mathias Bauer a écrit : Hi Mathias, > > Of course that would probably mean that our Linux version won't run out > of the box on most Linux machines as the old OOo version did. It will > run only on those computers that have compatible versions of all > libraries installed in t

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/11 05:34, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, all, >> I am afraid we must still do this. Perhaps it's easier >> to find the people that oppose .. Can we legally make >> a call to everyone that opposes the change to speak up >> before a certain deadline? > > > I don't know if that would be l

Re: Future of MySQL Connector Extension

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/07/11 06:29, Pedro Giffuni a écrit : Hi Pedro, > > We won't ship GPL stuff directly, but note that whomever distributes > binaries for your system can. > In other words, both options that you mention are possible. Therein lies the rub. Who would do that for MacOSX ? Certainly not Apple. An

Future of MySQL Connector Extension

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Does anyone have any idea what the future of this extension is going to be ? At the moment, it appears that the library used to build the connector is under GPL2, which is not compatible with the Apache licence. The connector was previously built and delivered from within the OOo source t

Re: Some more strange files in the OOo code

2011-06-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/06/11 23:05, Pedro F. Giffuni a écrit : Hi Pedro, I was particularly wondering about this one : > Name Version license > __ > mysql-connector 1.1.0 GPL The connector-c package from Mysql containing the libmysql library is released under GPL2, at

Re: User facing web items - IP concerns

2011-06-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/06/11 19:43, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : Hi Dennis, > My nosing around so far leads me to believe that this is like the response to > the Facebook "relationship" question: "It's complicated." Until Facebook, I > had no idea how many people said that about their relationships. > > Some