[OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

[Peter Tribble]

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/