Hi,

Am Dienstag 17 Januar 2006 15:04 schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
> But of course there is still the open question why this perl script is
> necessary, i can't see any problems with a defaut installtion at the moment

The current script (CVS HEAD) is at
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/ooo-build/bin/ooo-wrapper.in?rev=1.46&view=markup

While the issues which can be fixed upstream can be fixed upstream there's 
some other stuff there like setting variables and warning the users 
when /proc is not there (while the last one probably could be added to 
soffice, too, but I think about extending it to use optionaly  use 
gtk-/kdialog/... when it's there).

Yes, users *do/did* run into such problems.

And when there's some upgrade and when we maybe change some default setting 
and want to change the users' config too because they otherwise wonÄt get 
their issue fixed / won't benefit you have to do that somewhere *before* the 
start of OOo.

Waiting for a fix upstream isn't always possible (you need to get working 
bugfixed packages out and into the distris' dveelopment trees for testing and 
into their releases when its time) and neither is it a real good approach to 
just ignore it or tell the users to rm -rf .openoffice.org2 if it's possible 
to fix in an other way. Quality is what is tried to achieve here, even on 
upgrades or for stuff which the distro can/should solve for the users, be it 
bugfixing, working around of bugs etc).

At the moment we actually have a case where that is needed. And I also think 
about how we best get old user settings into 2.x. No, the registration dialog 
is *not* suitable for this since a) registration and more importantly b) 
accepting a license is uncommon in the OSS/FS world and thefore not 
recommended and therfore disabled in most distros.

Regards,

Rene
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