On 19/10/11 09:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbpli...@gmail.com
<mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote:
If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package
away, what you'll find is java can't be shipped by default and a lot
of the packages can't ship without full java in place.
The online version comes with java builtin as LO and OO can ship it.
What you'll find is there are several addition packages you can add to
get the online version.
So how come prior versions were able to use Evolution Addressbook
by default then?
At one point StarOffice had a built in email client which I *think*
shares a fair bi t of architecture with Evolution. It was dropped in
version 4, before Sun bought it, but the address book remained so it
would appear that when Evolution and its data storage system were
integrated with Gnome, the API was still there.
The change to Unity also includes a change to Desktop Couch as the
storage engine, principally because Evolution is still owned by
Novell. However, LibreOffice is still the same codebase as in the
pre-Oracle days so I would think it's not going to be straightforward
to introduce a new storage engine as a plugin. I have this terrible
feeling that at first it might have to be an ODBC data provider...
OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that comes
direct from the LO website?
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