Re: Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

[ resend, I accidentially only replied to debian-openoffice ]
[ out of curiosity, why is debian-openoffice Cced?)

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Nirgal Vourgère wrote:
> I not familiar with openoffice code but, FYI, I think they had problems with that, too. Their source contains several mdbtools patches, including:
> ooo-build-3-2-0-10/patches/dev300/cws-mdbdriver02.diff
> I didn't fully reviewed them, but I had the general feeling their patches are now part of developing branch.

Actually, no. That patch above is the extraction of a CVS(!) branch (Ooo does not use CVS anymore since looong) which tried to support mdb in OOo.
Not applied anymore since ages because incomplete and broken
(and that afair has some parts in mdbtools)

See also http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33654

Grüße/Regards,

René
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