Re: Build Instructions?

On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003, at 20:04 Uhr, Noah Silva [Mailing list] 
wrote:

> Just as FYI, the reason I need to build it, instead of using .debs is
> because I am using Debian/PowerPC.  I didn't check, but I assumed your
> .deb files were for x86.

Ah, interesting. Let us know how it turns out. We are currently porting 
OGo to the IBM iSeries platform, which also runs Linux on PowerPC. That 
didn't work out of the box, but the port should be completed next week.
So if you encounter problems with va_arg structures, it might be worth 
waiting a bit longer instead of getting gray hair inside of GDB ;-)

> I am happy this project was open-sourced, of course, but I am curious 
> as
> to -why- the decision was made.

There are several reasons which I cannot fully disclose ;-) One of 
course is marketing (which already was huge !). Whether the software is 
open source or not doesn't really affect our business since we always 
made the majority of our income from professional service, custom 
development, training - not from license fees.

> Also, if I can understand how the internationalization was done, I 
> might
> have time to localize it to Japanese.

I would like to come back on that to you later. Japanese currently 
isn't as easy and needs some programming work as well. OGo uses Unicode 
internally but not in all places.

best regards,
   Helge
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