[Open Office] Announcement : KDE address book support in OpenOffice.org (m680 code line)

[Éric Bischoff]

Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 16:05, michael meeks a écrit :
> Hi Eric,

Hi Michael.

[Removing Cornelius and Jan from the recipients. Jan's mailbox is full - 
another effect of vacations time]

> > I don't think so. I suppose my letter is in Sun's offices in the US,
> > waiting for Eric Renaud to be back from vacation. We have already sent
> > him a mail.
>
> 	Ah - ok, that's fine then - as long as it's in the works we are happy
> in ooo-build land :-)

;-)

> > I still don't understand how ooo-build integrates with normal CWS system.
> > And is ooo-build a kind of fork ?
>
> 	We don't say fork - it's a dirty word.

!!! At least I had one good laugh today!!! :-)

> 	It's a "holding ground for 
> patches on their way up-stream". As you try to get your work up-stream
> you will realise what a total PITA Sun makes it - creating unnecessary 
> pain at every stage - have you seen the 'specification' writing
> process ?

I have seen samples of such documents, yes. I can figure out.

> - it has to be experienced to be believed. So - it doesn't 
> really integrate with the cws system at all.

OK. But do you still get your work integrated into "official" OOo at the end?

> 	Anyhow - the punch line is that - you can ship in
> Debian/[Open]SUSE/Gentoo/Ark/PLT/etc. etc. quickly while Sun stews in
> their own juice ;-)

Understood.

Speaking about shipping with OpenSUSE / Novell (you're a Novell guy, aren't 
you?), see
	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103857

> 	Ah - please do contribute to the wiki - we're trying to migrate all the
> hackers guides / cws docs etc. & build that out to:
> http://go-oo.org/wiki/

Ooops. I meant "on the wiki". Not on main server.

> >  It allowed me to fortify my knowledge of the OOo build
> > system. I wish I had discovered this doc before starting this project
> > :-(. Anyway. It's great doc, thanks for having made it.
>
> 	Heh :-)

Ah, and I will subscribe to this list, if there are not too much messages a 
day.

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