Hi guys On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: ><snip> >> The next point is the JDK. >> The build of OpenOffice will depend on Suns JDK >= 1.2, but this is a >> problem. This was discussed at the beginning of the february of this year. >> JDK >= 1.2 is highly non-free (Stephen [gibreel@pobox.com]), so, if debbuild >> OpenOffice, we could only upload it to contrib. >> Kaffee will support all the functions of JDK, but seems to be to buggy for >> it. Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> and Jeffry Smith >> <smith@missioncriticallinux.com> reported, that OpenOffice built fine >> without Java and worked fine, too. >> They didn't miss any functions. >Note that the official OpenOffice installer which you get when you >download the binaries from www.openoffice.org gives you the possibility to >install without java support. Therefore, I suspect that certain features >in OpenOffice are using java (else you wouldn't need it for the build), >but that these are features that are being used very rarely, so it should >work without. Right, I thinks so >> What would we do, try with or without Java. >> >> In my opinion, we should, if we want Java, build OpenOffice with Kaffee, so >> we are able to upload OpenOffice to main. :) >> It is under GPL, so it has to be there IMHO :) ! >Is kaffe JDK1.2 compatible? I don't know. I don't have not enough java- experience to check, and there aren't any files under /usr/share/doc/kaffe who tell us something about it :(. >> Last but not least, Wouter asked, if we could create a special mailinglist >> for OpenOffice. Martin "Joey" Schulze will create us an unofficial >> mailinglist, if we want to? >> I will ask him then. >Great (although I won't have the time to help any more, since I've got >exams at the end of the month. Maybe after those...) Oh fine.. :) We will take some (long) time.... :) regards Jan -- One time, you all will be emulated by linux! ---- Jan- Hendrik Palic Url:"http://www.billgotchy.de" E-Mail: "palic@billgotchy.de" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- C++ UL++ P+++ L+++ E W++ N+ o+ K- w--- O- M- V- PS++ PE Y+ PGP++ t--- 5- X+++ R-- tv- b++ DI-- D+++ G+++ e+++ h+ r++ z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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