Re: [discussion] refactoring OpenOffice

2019-03-02 Thread Peter Kovacs
Do you have an example or can you explain how to find these. I'll have a look. On 02.03.19 04:31, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > The OpenOffice build system is both complicated and fragile. If you do > move things around, you MUST test the ability to build and install for > each supported OS. > > To m

Re: [discussion] refactoring OpenOffice

2019-03-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
One starting point is my last few patches, which involved a bug in one of the string implementations, and buffer overflows. On 3/1/2019 11:58 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Do you have an example or can you explain how to find these. I'll have a look. On 02.03.19 04:31, Patricia Shanahan wrote: The

Re: [discussion] refactoring OpenOffice

2019-03-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
FWIW, I agree. We've already seen how simple, obvious changes have a nasty ripple effect. Having a major restructure "now" would, from what I can see, have a major impact on us being able to release 4.2.0 in anything close to "soon"... I also have issues w/ fixing/restructuring things that work

Re: [discussion] refactoring OpenOffice

2019-03-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
My motivation for wanting to update data structures is bug fixing. I've already had to track down and fix buffer overflows. A general move to self-expanding buffers and bounds checking would fix bugs we do not yet know about. On 3/2/2019 7:16 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: FWIW, I agree. We've alre

Cannot install!

2019-03-02 Thread R Washington
Error 1305. Can you help? Sent from Mail for Windows 10