On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt <v...@bb-c.de> wrote:
> > as a pointer for people who want to get > > LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my > > notes here: > > > > > http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html > > Thank you Peter! This will be very useful. > > You write that LibreOffice is the "primary candidate" for an office > suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice? > It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more distros. Not to mention better and wider document format support. > Some of the stated goals of the LibreOffice project when they forked > were to convert all comments from German to English, and to rip out > all Solaris-specific things. I would have guessed that OpenOffice > would be easier to build than LibreOffice. > All the modernization and refactoring in LibreOffice (and the replacement of the old build system) have made it much easier to build - the old build system was far more rigid and fragile. > Anyway, more choice is always good. > Having a functional office suite at all has to be good! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
