[OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

[Hans J Albertsson]

Could you make a guess at how far your effort would help someone trying to
compile and package libreoffice for Solaris 11.2?

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 8 jun 2015 22:50 skrev "Peter Tribble" <peter.tribble at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:
>
> > > as a pointer for people who want to get
> > > LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my
> > > notes here:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html
> >
> > Thank you Peter!  This will be very useful.
> >
> > You write that LibreOffice is the "primary candidate" for an office
> > suite for Tribblix.  Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice?
> >
>
> It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more
> distros. Not to mention better and wider document format support.
>
>
> > Some of the stated goals of the LibreOffice project when they forked
> > were to convert all comments from German to English, and to rip out
> > all Solaris-specific things.  I would have guessed that OpenOffice
> > would be easier to build than LibreOffice.
> >
>
> All the modernization and refactoring in LibreOffice (and the replacement
> of the old build system) have made it much easier to build - the old
> build system was far more rigid and fragile.
>
>
> > Anyway, more choice is always good.
> >
>
> Having a functional office suite at all has to be good!
>
> --
> -Peter Tribble
> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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