From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 26 20: 4:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCE537B417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09248; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:04:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:04:21 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: Tim Tretyak Subject: OpenOffice for FreeBSD [was Re: linux-base 6.2 vs linux-base 7] Message-ID: <20011126210421.A9144@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <3BFF8750.8090109@rain.fr> <20011124052911.A29638@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20011124142744.GA651@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011124142744.GA651@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:27:44AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0100, Tom Fischer wrote: >> I installed staroffice 6 with the ports mechanism, and I had the >> same problem with the dialog boxes not appearing. I was running >> afterstep 1.8.9 as my wm (XFree86 4.1.0). When I switched to twm, >> the dialog box problem went away... > > Does anyone here have any information on the native port of > OpenOffice? I've been trying to correspond with the person > listed as in charge of the port to offer assistance, but I get > no replies. I finally got a response from the Sun engineer in Germany who's supposed to be overseeing the FreeBSD native port. He sounds like he could use some help. How many of us would like to pitch in? I'm gonna... +--------------- | Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:00:22 +0200 | From: "Tim Tretyak" | Organization: UMC | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011027 | X-Accept-Language: ru, en, uk | MIME-Version: 1.0 | To: "Chad R. Larson" | Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD | References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | X-UIDL: 905e20e37e188ee36db08aa8ad32dc92 | Status: RO | Content-Length: 1316 | Lines: 45 | | Chad R. Larson wrote: | |> What is the status of the native port of OpenOffice to FreeBSD? I |> know several people who are running StarOffice 5.2 for Linux under |> the FreeBSD Linux emulator, but the native port seems to be stalled. |> |> I've written several times to offer hardware and/or software support, |> but have received no response. |> |> Are you still active in the project? | | | Sorry for my possible silence - OpenOffice FBSD port now under active | development, but only by two developers - me and Carlos Pantiago (you | can see his email in dev@ and porting@ mail list. All of as works for | OO as hobby, and, in general, we don't have much time to spend for | this. :( | | Currently we don't needs hardware support - our computers is not so bad, | but we ugly needs more porters with piece of free time... | | So - all porters are welcome, but IMHO alpha quality of OO itself and | pre-pre-alpha quality of FBSD port makes no sense to recruite testers. | May be after three-four month... | | Sorry for my bad english, | With best regards, | Tim Tretyak | +--------------- -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message