June 2005 - Openoffice-os4 - Studentersamfundet

Team Content page (site related)
by Christophe Ochal 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Hello, Been writing a small content page for the site with a small description of the team, it's VERY INCOMPLETE, so feedback is welcomed ;) (aswell as spelling corrections) --- begin --- The team: The team behind this effort comes from all over the world, each member bringing in his or her own specialty. Currently, the following people are active on the project: Management: Ochal Christophe (team leader) David Doyle (webmaster) Programmers: Thomas Frieden Hans Jorg Frieden Tony Wyatt Paul Heams Public Relations & translations Stephane Richard Rose Humphrey --- end --- Kind regards -- A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Dependencies
by Olly Hodgson 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Right, here's a list of dependencies taken from AmigaOpenOffice.org. I've stripped out the ones that are apparently already available for OS4. Which ones are being worked on, which ones need more research, and are there any that we already have? - Network Audio System (audio) - Dmake - Build Environment Tool - NP_SDK - Sane - STLPort - C++ Standard Template Library (Std2) - Twain - Neon - glibc 2.1.x or higher - Perl 5 - csh - gpc general polygon clipper library - Ant Build Environment

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Re: [OO.org-OS4] Dependencies
by Olly Hodgson 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

On 6/16/05, Thomas Frieden <ThomasF(a)hyperion-entertainment.biz> wrote: > >- Dmake - Build Environment Tool > > Good you mention it. I've built a version that uses newlib V3, so now > with Update 3 (which contains newlib V3) out, I can release that... Good, good :) > >- STLPort - C++ Standard Template Library (Std2) > > Steven Solie already ported that. Sweet. > >- glibc 2.1.x or higher > > Hmm, are you sure about this one ? Basically, this is a C library, > meaning it's equivalent to newlib or clib2... Are there any special > functions necessary ? I'm not sure, no, I'm just asking the questions that appear to be unanswered on the wiki :) > >- Ant Build Environment > > Needs Java, IIRC... OK then, we need to figure out if we really need ANT then....

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Reminder
by Ochal Christophe 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Awhile ago i posted a mail with the question if any of the PR guys here were willing to write an article/make a presentation for amiGBG, but nobody volenteered. Is anyone willing to take this upon him? Cheers

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LibUSB
by Rene W. Olsen 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I'm happy to anounce that the first tranfer from usb unit to a driver using libusb have been done. :-D There is still issues left before I can release any thing, but I'm getting there :-) Kind regards Rene W. Olsen

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Library problem
by Rene W. Olsen 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I got a problem with expunge() When my library gets expunge'd I want to release all the resources. I have already make the free functions but the problem is that they are in "main" interface and expunge is "manager" interface, so is there a way to call the "main" interface from the "manager" interface? I guess this is a quiestion for the Friedens Bros. hope you can help!! Kind regards Rene W. Olsen

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Article for amiGBG (fwd)
by Christophe Ochal 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hello, *** FORWARDED MESSAGE *** Original author: Christophe Ochal Written on: 01/06/2005 *** Beginning of forwarded message *** Hello, Say, any of you PR people willing to write up an article for amiGBG? (Or any of you planning to be there?) I received an inquiry for more info about the project, but i'm not very good at writing texts. The one who does it gets a cookie ;) Kind regards -- I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be *** End of forwarded message *** Kind regards -- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on... -- Winston Churchill Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Aspell
by Christophe Ochal 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hello, Well, i'm toying about with the Aspell port Bean made, well, with it's source code anyway, and i was wondering how bean actually compiled it... Paul; if you read this.... ;) Kind regards -- You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Getting involved
by Thomas Frieden 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi, To dispell the silence a bit (hehe, any D&D fans here ;), I thought I'd write a mail here :) Ok, the purpose is this: Since I now have more time, I would like to become actively invovled (actively as in "I want to write some code"). Are there any projects up for grabs that I can look into ? Regards, -- Thomas Frieden <ThomasF(a)hyperion-entertainment.biz> Hyperion Entertainment - Naur dan i-deryg lhuin

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A general question
by Thomas Frieden 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'd like to ask a more general question regarding the porting effort. As we all have seen, activity died down after an initial euphoria. This is dangerous as it might lead to a complete standstill. Therefore, the question is this: Currently, work is underway to get the dependencies ported. But in the very early stages, some of them aren't really needed. So theoretically, work could be started on the low-level parts of OpenOffice itself, for example the build environment and SAL, resolving dependencies as they come up, maybe even creating "dummies" for seldom-used functionality (for example, I've never used any USB stuff with OpenOffice). Ok, that's just food for thought. BTW, OOo builds via dmake, which we already ported (SNAP also builds with dmake). It just depends on newlib V3 which will be in the next update. Regards, -- Thomas Frieden <ThomasF(a)hyperion-entertainment.biz> Hyperion Entertainment - Naur dan i-deryg lhuin

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