jeudi, janvier 19, 2006

A year of OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Mac OS X

As reminder, a personnal list of important changes for Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org, since the first screenshot...

2005 january 17th :
First launch of OpenOffice.org 2.0 Mac OS X (milestone m71s1), with screenshots. Antic version ...
Florian Heckl told me about m66 just crashing

2005 february 5th :
my first build of OpenOffice.org 1.9.xx for Linux PPC (m77 ), whithout java ...

2005 march 5th :
Martin Hollmichel accepted Eric Hoch request : m79 proposed as first milestone for Mac OS X !

2005 june :
Tiger was out, with a non friendly version of X11 :-/
Apple key is usable !

2005 july :
OpenOffice.org can use gtk themes on Mac OS X

2005 august :
creation of the Mac Team

2005 september :
Florian fixed the first gcc-4.0 build.
Important step forward in fact
Terry Teague is gone :-/
Mactel location ( Sponsored by Cusoon )
CFRUnLoop() is fixed (searching since June..)

2005 October :
OOoCon2005 in Koper Capodistria : very good memories from Slovenia !
We received the Tinderbox: a PowerMac G5 2,3GHz sponsored by OpenOffice.org e.V.

2005 November
:
Meeting in Hamburg with the Mac Team : ( ready for another one ? )
Meeting with Apple responsive : they will help us ! (3 Mac minis, support)

2005 December 24th :
Maho Nakata, (Japanese project), provided 63 locales for Mac OS X !
(Currently 7 are QA'ed and downloadable as stable)

2006 January 5th :
The Tinderbox is up and runing ! Maxime Petazzoni did a great work!

2006 January 13th :
OpenOffice.org 2.0.x works natively on Mactel ! (see previous article)
Universal Binary build in progress...

2006 February 1st-3rd :
Solution Linux in Paris : Apple invited me to present the Mactel version.