[oi-dev] Apache OpenOffice retirement - all contributors fled to LibreOffice after Oracle Sun takeover Fwd: Broken components

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Wagner
<tom-oi-dev at tom.bn-ulm.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:31:41PM +0200, Aur??lien Larcher wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Sigh. What should I say? Was this not the expected outcome? I could
>> > argue Oracle has to learn about managing communities, but I'd say no
>> > one there would listen. Or not?
>> >
>> > For Openindiana, is any one working on a LibreOffice replacement of OpenOffice?
>>
>> We started packaging its dependencies a while ago:
>>
>> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/LibreOffice
>>
>> but the SFE project then kindly set up a Hipster repository containing
>> LibreOffice late May 2016:
> Actually LibreOffice 4.4.5.2 appeard on OpenIndiana in October 17th 2015.
> Version 4.4.7.2 on OpenIndiana appeard on Jan 10th 2016.
>
>>
>> http://sfe.opencsw.org/libreoffice-4.4.7.2
>
> Yes, SFE has LibreOffice. The open project can't make commitments. But I can
> say to try keeping the package updated. And I believe the other contributors
> to LibreOffice on their own Solarish projects or SFE do the same (ptribble, pjama, and more).
>
> This means, as long as LibreOffice and its dependencies don't put obstacles
> in the way, we'll have a LibreOffice package on x86 Solarish Systems in the
> open.
> The LibreOffice package in the SFE project is build for Solaris 11, (upcoming Solaris 12),
> OpenIndiana Hipster. The SFE way to build packages is programattically set to support
> various OS-Distros, so it can be extended to other SVR4 or IPS based Solarish
> OS-Distros.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
> PS: Aurelien, next time I'll try keeping a note in my blog posts when the article appeared first.

You did at the bottom of the article ;) but I sent the email too fast :)

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