Re: Integrating cws_macjoin1153

At 9:38 AM +0200 6/28/05, Eric Hoch wrote:
>Hi,
>Am Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:47:55 +0900, schrieb [email protected]:
>>
>>>> Much more interesting is the integration of the fixes into 2.0
>>>> sources. Here we have to take a look and see if Patricks
>>>> patches, ported to 2.0, are of any help for 2.0 and prevent
>>>> double work. Here we should take a closer look. But this isn't
>>>> easy and here any help is welcomed. Here you could do code
>>>> comparison.
>>> I agree.  We should be focusing on the current build and not a
>>> backport release that may or may not happen.
>>
>> I'd like to remind the happy porting crowd that there is no 1.1.4
>> for OSX/X11 on the official download page.
>
>Indeed. But that is not our fault. When 1.1.4 was released Eric B
>announced the availability of RC for it. We had en, de and fr
>builds. In the end only the german nativ lang project did a QA and
>released an official 1.1.4 for Mac OS X. All other lang projects
>didn't do QA and so there is no official build available. Since
>neither Eric B nor I had Jaguar those releases were Panther only
>and still exist. QA can beginn any time soon. Ask Eric B. for the
>url were RC 1.1.4 can be downloaded from.
>
>For Jaguar Terry Teague could help. Afaik he has 1.1.x builds for
>Jaguar. I don't know which versions but he reads this list and we
>may ask him.
>
>For Tiger the situation is different. Here we have builds working
>but lacking some functionality - that is how I understand Eric
>Bachard. Please ask him for details I don't want to write bogus
>here.
>
>> Most of the places I know that propose OSX/X11 work with 1.1.2.
>
>Right. At least the international ones. In Germany the 1.1.4 is
>widely spread.
>
>> I understand that 2.0 _is_ the next step from porting
>> perspective, but from the user side, we'd rather have OOo go one
>> step at a time :)
>
>Yes. It went on step by step but sorry we X11 cannot do everything
>ourself and if nobody feels responsible for QA there is no official
>build. O.K. The only fault we made and I can think of is that we
>perhaps didn't notify trinity forums about the availability of a
>1.1.x RC.
>
>> Unless there are technical reasons _not_ to propose a 1.1.4 for
>> OSX/X11, in which case that should be documented on the download
>> page, I suggest that some time is taken to make a 1.1.4 working
>> build for OSX/X11.
>
>There is no technical reason and we have working 1.1.4 packages for
>Panther. I only don't want to release them without QA. I therefore
>invite everyone to do testing for 1.1.4 builds so that they can be
>made available via the international download page.
>
>The only handicap I see is that we may need to offer three
>different versions:
>
>One for Panther - available but no QA done
>One for Jaguar - ask Terry Teague if he has one and do QA for this
>too.
>One for Tiger - available but buggy and newer builds break. Here
>James McKenzie is on a good way in hopefully solving them.



I have been paying attention to the porting development list, but didn't
want to get dragged into the current OOo/NeoOffice political discussion (I
have my opinions on the real story, but I prefer not to stir things up).

The last build of OOo I did was 1.9m97, then I went on vacation, etc. I
have started getting back into OOo development, and I am currently building
1.9m112 (I ran into a couple of problems, but I will document those when my
build finishes, or if I can't get past a problem).

I do build OOo 1.1.x builds on Jaguar, and they all work (for me in my
limited testing) on Jaguar/Panther/Tiger, but I have no formal QA/release
process in place, partly because the official US version of OOo 1.1.2 for
Mac OS X used the InstallAnywhere Installer, and I don't have a license to
use that, and I haven't had time to put together an installer package for
Jaguar/Panther/Tiger users that is as good as the one for OOo 1.1.2 (in
spite of a couple of known bugs with that installer). More importantly, I
don't have any server space, nor do I have broadband Internet access at
home, so I can release my builds - if someone can help with server space, I
might be able to do something.


FYI, I did attempt to build OOo 1.9m97 on Jaguar but ran into a couple of
problems that prevented the build from succeeding, and I haven't found time
or got the expertise to investigate further.


I did run into some problems building 1.9m97 that I intended to document,
but vacation and other things got in the way, so I am now waiting for my
1.9m112 builds to see if I still have to document the issues.


If you want me to try some builds of OOo 1.1.5 candidates in
Jaguar/Panther/Tiger, I could probably do that.


>Regards,
>Eric Hoch


Regards, Terry