Call for donations to attend WWDC
The Mac OS X OpenOffice.org porting project needs donations, to make some people of it's Team attend the WWDC This event is from far the
most important of the year for Apple developers, so for Mac porting project, e.g. to :
- meet some of the best Apple engineers
- find answer for a lot of the issues we have.
- learn everything about new technologies Apple implements
We really need to go !Thank's in advance for any contribution :-)Contact : Eric Bachardericb at openoffice dot org
Mise au point
There has been some confusion about the relationship between OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice and we would like to clear things up.
Our focus is and must be porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. In the last year, we have been very successful in getting 2.0 to the Mac OS (X11) and our team now includes many. We are further taking the port to Mac Intel, and beta builds are running of this. These are real and important accomplishments, and they could not have been done without the support of the community. Our ultimate goal is to fully port OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X on Aqua. For that, we need all the help the Mac community can provide.
Direct links to NeoOffice were removed because our focus is on OpenOffice.org, not NeoOffice, which is a derivation based substantially (more than 98 percent) on OpenOffice.org code. If the OpenOffice.org coding effort is to be successful, we need for users to work directly with us.
We have no argument with NeOffice and wish them the best in their efforts. Their approach differs from ours but satisfies many users. We invite them to work with us in building OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and beyond and in fully porting OpenOffice.org to the Mac. We are also open to the idea of collaborating: exchanging ideas and code (when possible) in a useful, friendly, and productive way.
We hope this clears up some of the misunderstandings. Again, we invite friendly collaboration and cooperation and would like for the Mac community to help us port OpenOffice.org to Aqua.
If you want to join the fun, go to
Mac Porting site Our list is mac@porting.openoffice.org.
Some notes to describe how it works
Since the time I had to finish this document ... Done :-)
The URL :
aquacolors dev notesFeedback appreciated (means probably some things are not completely correct, maybe wrong ...)
Easter week end
Long week end ...
Verified pj53
Verified macosx203fixes ( to be confirmed => build in smoketests_oo juste deleted my /Appplication/OpenOfficE.org 2.0.app :( )
macosxfondu : found -at least- what was wrong with this script. Eric Hoch verified it, and confirmed. Changes commited. Now find a QA able to build and verify asap it works.
Remaining : #i63376# (Oliver )
Started to look into Apple doc how works ATSUI font server
fu... applescript
Still stuck with macosxfondu. Until this cws is not completed, cannot continue for native port :-/
Passed 3 hours to search *why* this @"{#\^! applescript does not work as expected... Obviously, paths are not correctly interpreted.
Made some little step forwards : using my -well working - previous script, it works fine, excepted for cookies, last thing to fix.
The great idea came from Oliver Braun : replace the original binary using a fake-script, to intercept every fondu's call, and have a complete log. I appreciate such ingenuity (my Harrap's told me ;-) )
Oliver helps always a lot, with an incredible discretion. Many thank's to him.
Enough for today. Will see tomorrow
New donation from Apple for Mac OS X porting project
Updated : machines are 20", not 17" as previously announced !!
I'm glad to anounce
Apple's donation of two Imacs 20" Intel for Tino and Stephan.
This hardware will help us a lot : fix last UNO bug, and continue with native port.
Stephan wrote me he only needed
38min to build svdem (from aquavcl01), instead of
4 hours before :-)
Sure, these new fast machines will help us a lot !
Tino is on the way ...
Many many thank's to Michel Sutter, from Apple
OpenBSD port is in progress ...
Since some times,
Robert Nagy started an effort to
port OpenOffice.org on OpenBSD.
If I'm not wrong, this is a new port because after some tries, it appears that a lot of things are missing in the code, like complete solenv.
If you want to help him, please contact Robert directly by mail using :
robert at openbsd dot org.
BTW : welcome on board Robert, and thank you for your work !
