[Mageia-dev] A new office suite ?

Thu Oct 7 04:54:02 CEST 2010

Marc Paré a écrit :
+>
+> Le 2010-10-06 15:48, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+>> Am 29.09.2010 21:12, schrieb Ahmad Samir:
+>>> On 29 September 2010 21:57, Michael
+>>> Scherer<misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>>>>> On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 05:42:48 André Salaün wrote:
+>>>>>> OpenOffice or LibreOffice for Mageia ?
+>>>>>
+>>>> we can have both packages :)
+>>>>
+>>>> -- 
+>>>> Michael Scherer
+>>>>
+>>> Nooo! unless you want the guy maintaining the go-oo/libreoffice
+>>> packages to commit suicide :)
+>>>
+>>> (Imagine having two bears running loose :)).
+>> @misc:
+>> If you have ever tried to rebuild/package the whole OOo, then you 
+>> wouldn't
+>> put that out so lightly. Ahmad really has a point there. Full OOo takes
+>> up to 24
+>> hours building time and space requirements are in the region of 20-35 GB
+>> IIRC
+>> on a desktop machine.
+>>
+>> So definitely every OfficeSuite should have at least a small team of
+>> maintainers,
+>> at least thats my opinion, from having helped Ghiuseppe Ghibo ironing 
+>> out
+>> some packaging/compiling quirks, that was back with OOo 2.2/3/4.
+>> I think it didn't get much slimmer since then.
+>>
+>> BTW, i'm all for LibreOffice!
+>>
+>> Regards
+>>
+>> Florian Hubold
+>
+> If you read about who has signed on to the LibO project, it leaves no 
+> doubt, that once organized, LibreOffice is the package to offer. You 
+> can find the supporters here (more are coming!): 
+> http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
+>
+> I would vote to offer the LibO as is right from the start. It is 
+> working well for me, and it looks like they are quite organized, they 
+> will have a final product out in no time. They have a lot of user/dev 
+> help.
+>
+> They have discussion groups on Gmane as well as many mailists on the go.
+>
+> Marc
+Looks great to me too.  So far in English.  Thinking of contributing to 
+their French translation, once it is organised.
+
+- André (andre999)
+