2011/6/4 Jesús Corrius <je...@softcatala.org>: > As if understanding and using the "old" OOo build mechanisms which have been > somewhat adapted at LO wasn't hard enough.
As a user (with just a tiny contribution) I really wish that OO.o would just die already. It is not "just" that the current community are much more friendly and open to contributions now, it is also the codebase that is starting to become more sane and organized / accessible. In a while, it may even build without requiring your own Cray supercomputer and two PhDs. Why would people want to go back to the java-dominated "obscure build system land" that has cost so much to the project already? With TDF I think LibreOffice can make the equivalent of Netscape -> Firefox transition. For me the sane thing for ASF is to either donate the OO.o name/trademarks in turn to TDF, so that maybe we can have the equivalent of gcc -> egcs -> gcc migration and the existing marketing efforts for OO.org don't go to waste, or just drop the whole thing and let it die in peace. I hope even IBM can see the light and start contributing to LibreOffice instead of trying to maintain the ugly beast that was OO.o on its own, or trying to divide the community (and thus generating bad publicity for both IBM and Oracle in the end, see LWN). Go Libre Office! We users love you! :) :) --- Pantelis _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
