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Re: openoffice 3.0



Chris Christensen wrote:
> OOffice 3.0 and 3.01 have terminally borked file locking in the case  
> where (say) excel and oocalc 3.0, or oocalc 2.4 and oocalc 3.0 both  
> access a spread sheet.  Leads to corruption and lost edits.  If you mix  
(..)

And? You don't really suggest we skipped 3.0 and 3.0.1 and just have the
compleetly out-of-fate 2.4.x in unstable and thus shorten the testing of 3.x?

> "Bugs
>
> Some 1000 bugs were fixed in OpenOffice.org 3.1. One such bug, serious  

And some others introduced...

> for office networks, was introduced in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The new file  
> locking didn't work with OpenOffice.org version 2, Microsoft Office, or  
> any application other than OpenOffice.org 3, so OpenOffice.org 3.1  
> reintroduces the file locking at the operating system level (in addition  
> to its own file locking system based on hidden files)."
>
> 3.1 is still alpha.  The final release is expected March 26, 2009.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

					outdated info. Will be April.

.. and will be uploaded when the time is for this.

What was your point of this post? (Except maybe trolling.)

Grüße/Regards,

René
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