On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Uri Sharf wrote: > Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >Jonathan suggested that, as Tk are doing that anyways, Tk will set up a > >system where people from the community can log in (either remotely or > >pay them a visit in Jerusalem), and use their facilities to hack > >OpenOffice. The precise details are a little sketchy at the moment, but > >interested parties are welcome to contact him and express their interest. > > > > I may as well not be up2date on this, but just wondering why isn't the > code beeing merged back to the main tree, allowing anyone, from Israel > or outside of it, to participate using which ever means available to > them, the way they do with OOo itself? >
One practical implication: Linux distributions serve their own copies of OpenOffice packages. I'm not totally sure about other distros, but I know that at least the debian one is heavily ptached with some useful patches . I have no idea if and when those patches will become part of the main tree (e.g: I suspect the people of Sun don't like the Xft so much). So I have to choose between a difficult-to-install and somewhat degregated package, but with the Hebrew speller and Hebrew UI, and between my distro's better OOo that has no Hebrew speller. Are the "Hebrew" parts available as a seperate patch? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
