From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 10 11:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f241.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BCA737BC2C for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 29400 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2000 18:39:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20000410183914.29399.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:39:14 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: bwoods2@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: staroffice install Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:39:14 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi: This is what I know from the Sun website: - 5.2 is a beta, it is not released S/W - downloading 5.2 is only possible until the end of the month of April. - the license on 5.2 expires on June 1st (may not be the exact date, but close enough) I am only a FreeBSD user, but it would seem that given that the 5.2 beta will only be available for very short time, and that the useful life of the 5.2 beta is at most a couple of months, it probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense to make it a port. Maybe if it is *very* easy to modify the 5.1 port, then a port can be made, but I for one am not holding my breath. 5.2 is due to be released in the summer (sometime in June?). John >From: William Woods >Reply-To: bwoods2@uswest.net >To: John Daniels >CC: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: staroffice install >Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT) > >Regarding StarOffice: > >I notice there is a new StarOfice up at suns sight. .2 I believe it is. I >currently have StarOffice .1 installed, from the ports. It is running >well,. >Are there any planes to update the port to handle StarOffice .2? > >---------------------------------- >E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net >Date: 10-Apr-00 >Time: 10:54:53l >---------------------------------- > >NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, >Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this >address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message