On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 18:46, Nelle Varoquaux > Once again, a nitpick. Apache did not get the LibreOffice project, but the > Openoffice.org project from Oracle. LibreOffice is a fork of openoffice and > a foundation independant from Apache. Work has been done to simplify the > code, but I wouldn't say it is much better: they can do a limited amount of > job with a limited amount of developpers (mostly old OOo devs). So yes, > there are less comments written in german than there used to, but it is > still a very old, buggy code in which changing a line causes lots of pain. >
Sorry, you are correct. Apache did refactor OOo in order to integrate it with Apache coding practices. LO is, however, heavily refactored from what I understand. Note that this may all be heresy, I've not looked at the code of either! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
