Re: MACOSX Porter sorely needed [Was: Donation request: small silent fast i686 box for Win mingw porting]

Fridrich Strba wrote:

> Warning: This post is containing a rant. If you have weak nerves, 
> please, do not read it.
>
> Hello,
>
> The porting project needs a porter to port OpenOffice.org on Mac OSX! 
> You may say, that there is a porting team. I will firmly disagree. 
> There is a group of Mac OSX "builders", but no porter. The aim of a 
> port is IMHO not so much in providing binary packages for a given 
> platform as in making it possible to build these binary packages 
> _out-of-the-box_. This is not possible for the while. There is a serie 
> of patches that allow to build scatered all around the place, but OOo 
> is not buildable on Mac OSX using only build instructions and a fresh 
> cvs checkout.

Fridrich:

I would be willing to be a 'porter' but I'm running Tiger, which has not 
been universally adopted.  However, I will be sending in a signed JCA so 
that I can assist in building and finding those patches that work and 
those that do not.

Also, I would like to point out that there are a series of patches, 
contributed by Patrick Luby, that Eric Bachard is trying to work back 
into the current SRX645 series.  With those patches, OOo 1.1.5rc3 builds 
on MacOSX without further massaging on Tiger and Panther.  I would like 
to see someone assist Eric and get the effort completed.

Are you willing to assist Eric in getting this accomplished so we can 
find, fix and work back into the current MWS all of the patches.

And Eric is the point person on SRC680 as he has recently worked in 
macosx10 as the most recent child work space.

James McKenzie