Hi Marcus,
To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context
indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support
the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO project.
Here are the statements on the page (that may need to be modified) that
indicate to me that the AOO project does not currently support OS2.
Bolded, underlined, and in red.
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_*Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is a productivity suite which is already
*__*officially available for the following platforms
<https://www.openoffice.org/download/>*__*: *_
_**_
* _*Windows - XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32-bit)*_
* _*Linux - RPM / DEB-based (32-bit and 64-bit)*_
* _*MacOS X (Intel) - 10.4 (Tiger) up to 10.15 (Catalina)*_
** This tells me that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project.
**********************************************************************************************************
**********************************************************************************************************
Apache OpenOffice - Third-Party ports and distributions
The following list of third-party ports and distributions is made
available as a service to the community. _*The Apache OpenOffice project
does not officially endorse or maintain these packages.*_ If you have a
port or distribution that you want to be listed here please send the
details to our public mailing list <mailto:dev@openoffice.apache.org>.
** This indicates to me that that ports to unsupported platforms are the
responsibility of those engaging in the process of porting and that
those third parties presumably outside of the AOO project.
**********************************************************************************************************
**********************************************************************************************************
*
Apache OpenOffice for OS/2
<https://www.bitwiseworks.com/news/#122020>
_*A port to *__*OS/2 <https://www.arcanoae.com/>*__*by *__*Yuri
Dario <mailto:ydario(a)apache.org>*__*and *__*bww bitwise works GmbH
<https://www.bitwiseworks.com/>*__*. *_
** This tells who the third party doing the port is.
**********************************************************************************************************
So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. I assume that
the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. So a porting organization
would need to make changes to the OS2 code that existed at the time OS2
was last supported. It would make sense then that they would have their
own forked instance of the OS2 code that they were updating as changes
to the non-OS2 code occurred. So, OS2 is not supported by the AOO
project and the code required to support a port is available in earlier
versions of the AOO code.
This is my reasoning. I'm just wondering if the AOO team should consider
performing a cleanup of code that is unused by the project. Of course
it's true that I don't know if any policy covers this. That's why I'm
asking.
On 1/10/21 7:29 AM, Marcus wrote:
Steve, when you think that the text on [1] leads to the impression
that AOO for OS/2 is dead maybe something with the wording is wrong.
So, please let us rethink to update the webpage to eleminate this
impression.
[1] https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html
Thanks
Marcus
Am 10.01.21 um 01:25 schrieb Steve Lubbs:
Thanks for correcting me. :-[
On 1/9/21 3:43 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote:
Where did you get the idea from? ;-)
AOO 4.1.8 is released for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems:
https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php#AOO
I am running it in a VM on ArcaOS 5.
https://www.arcanoae.com/
Am 09.01.21 um 23:40 schrieb Steve Lubbs:
According to this page, https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html,
OS2 is no longer supported. Isn't it time we remove the OS2-specific
code from the code base? BTW, OS2 was my favorite OS back in the day.
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