Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.comwrote: Hi On 2012-05-15, at 17:37 , Kay Schenk wrote: Hi all-- I was just taking a look at the porting project site: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ could someone who is familiar with this project, and

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Louis R Suárez-Potts
Dear Confused, My reply is long; short answer: Porting evolved, and there were those builds maintained by Sun for its clients and then there were those initiated and maintained by the community. Over time, the roster of Sun-maintained ports changed. I can give a bigger history of this—it's

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/16/2012 11:48 AM, � wrote: Dear Confused, My reply is long; short answer: Porting evolved, and there were those builds maintained by Sun for its clients and then there were those initiated and maintained by the community. Over time, the roster of Sun-maintained ports changed. I can give

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi, On 05/16/12 15:07, Kay Schenk wrote: On 05/16/2012 11:48 AM, � wrote: Dear Confused, My reply is long; short answer: Porting evolved, and there were those builds maintained by Sun for its clients and then there were those initiated and maintained by the community. Over time, the roster

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-16, at 16:07 , Kay Schenk wrote: well I am not quite THAT bored at the moment. ;) Thanks for all this. Yes, it did help. Our current situation, as with any open source project, is that you can only *build* what you can sustain. More or less, yes: the no part being, I would

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-05-16, at 16:07 , Kay Schenk wrote: well I am not quite THAT bored at the moment. ;) Thanks for all this. Yes, it did help. Our current situation, as with any open source project, is that you can only

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hi, On 05/16/12 15:07, Kay Schenk wrote: On 05/16/2012 11:48 AM, � wrote: Dear Confused, My reply is long; short answer: Porting evolved, and there were those builds maintained by Sun for its clients and then there

questions about the porting project

2012-05-15 Thread Kay Schenk
Hi all-- I was just taking a look at the porting project site: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ could someone who is familiar with this project, and hopefully currently involved with it, fill us in on what the affiliation of the porters listed --

Re: questions about the porting project

2012-05-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi On 2012-05-15, at 17:37 , Kay Schenk wrote: Hi all-- I was just taking a look at the porting project site: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ could someone who is familiar with this project, and hopefully currently involved with it, fill us in on what the affiliation of the porters