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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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Re: ASpell sources,
by Christophe Ochal 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hello Paul On 01/06/2005, you wrote: <snip> >> Paul, how stable was this port? Could this be used by other people >> already? If so, let me know so it can be submitted to os4depot. > > Just some slight modifications are still needed to the code/build to > clear up some problems for a standalone version: > > * nroff mode issues > * Stack related issue (suggest stack cookie (as suggested) for > OS4). * Currently uses unix paths. This could be a problem when > compiling for <= OS3.9 nroff? I've heard of groff, but never of nroff, what's it do? > Now that we have Perl on OS4 I think the build can be converted not to > used to bodged files I constructed with Perl using my Linux box, but > instead build them dynamically during the compile process. That would be better yes > To get this usable for people (OS4 Depot) an installer will need to be > written to install the program and associated dictionary files as it > can be a pain to install. All dictionary files need to be "constructed" > using the "prezip" file (that is built during the standard make > process), the main aspell program and the source dictionary files. > > I'll post some better documentation on the whole build process sometime > (shortly I hope). Also, unless anyone else is going to do it I'll > modify the source to deal with the issues above. I could knock together an installer if needed, assuming that the installer on OS4 is compatable with the one from CBM (same syntax) Regards -- I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours. 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 sources,
by Ochal Christophe 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

First of all i'd like to thank Paul for his work on aspell, i will upload his sources to the CVS if it's not been done yet. Paul, how stable was this port? Could this be used by other people already? If so, let me know so it can be submitted to os4depot. Thomas, could you provide a list of the coreutils you already ported to os4 and, if possible, dump the sources on the cvs or devsite? Cheers

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[Phpgroupware-developers] google "summer of code" program (fwd)
by Christophe Ochal 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello, Might intrest some of you folks ;) (yes, i'm spamming!) *** FORWARDED MESSAGE *** Original author: Chris Weiss Written on: 01/06/2005 *** Beginning of forwarded message *** this sounds like a great way to get some things done! $500 goes to the mentor to justify the time that will be needed to help the student. And if you're a student, this could be a nice way to earn $4500 over the summer. http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development... Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer... http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html How does it work? Google is providing a stipend of $5000 per developer, of which $4500 goes to the successful applicant and $500 to the mentoring organization upon completion of a project. _______________________________________________ Phpgroupware-developers mailing list Phpgroupware-developers(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-developers *** End of forwarded message *** Kind regards -- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. -- Lily Tomlin 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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Article for amiGBG
by Christophe Ochal 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

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

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Aspell
by Ochal Christophe 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi all, I opened a forum on the dev.amigaopenoffice.org site specific for aspell, please use this to discuss bugs instead of the tasks field in the projects.

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Calling DaveyD ;)
by Ochal Christophe 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

David, I tried to post a news item on the http://www.amigaopenoffice.org site, but couldn't get past the htmlarea3 text boxes due to JS errors (both with Firefox & IE), also, clicking on 'PM' in the forum there gives a page not found error. Cheers

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Update time
by Mark Bond 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi All, Its that time again... Can everyone provide an update of their status please (ie no time anymore, status of porting projects/tasks etc). Regards, Mark (Assitant to Project Manager)

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My Email has changed
by Martin Merz 17 May '05

17 May '05

Hi All, I've changed my ISP, and the old email address will expire in a view days. Please use mason at masonicons.de to contact me. Thanks in advance. Kind Regards, Martin "Mason" Merz www.masonicons.de I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

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My Email has changed
by Martin Merz 17 May '05

17 May '05

Hi All, I've changed my ISP, and the old email address will expire in a view days. Please use mason at masonicons.de to contact me. Thanks in advance. Kind Regards, Martin "Mason" Merz www.masonicons.de I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

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...
by Info - Amigaplatform 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi to all, what about amiga openoffice ? Is the porting delayed ? Cancelled o stopped ? The mailing list is empty of news... Regards

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Re: [OO.org-OS4] Getting involved - coding
by Belxjander Serechai 03 May '05

03 May '05

I can answer some questions about assembler... as conversion from Assembler -> C is what appears to be the case... When it comes to the OS libcall mechanism thats fine you't have to know the calls and arguments only for the project internal functions... re-compilation would be interesting but simplistic as long as everything is accounted for I don't have any style tips for code-layout but suggest you break up the assembler and check what sections are "re-usable" reworking functions accordingly --- Tony Wyatt <wyattaw(a)optushome.com.au> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On 2/05/2005, you wrote: > > > Are there any projects up for grabs that I can > look into ? > > > What about some advice on coding habits? I'd ask > privately, but the answer > will be of general interest anyway, both in the > project I am currently > working on and those in the future like OO and > Kaffe. > > Much old 68k code is fast and efficient because it > relies on parameters like > library and structure pointers remaining persistent > in allocated 68k > registers, eg a2, a6 always point to particular > structures. In a big > module consisting of dozens if not hundreds of very > small functions, only > one or two registers are ever used for volatile > data. Most parameters are > passed in assumed registers, so loading of arguments > is minimised. > > So what is a good way to maintain this register > shortcut in a C version of a > big program originally written in assembler? > Obviously I can specify > parameters to be passed in 68k registers, but I am > trying to write this thing in > a portable fashion, machine-independent. > > I have no experience with PPC code yet. Is there a > way to ask gcc to use > registers for certain parameters, in a > platform-independent way? I want the > C code to remain pure ANSI-compliant. It would be > nice to leave the code > unchanged from its present SAS/C environment to PPC > and gcc. > > cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > Openoffice-os4 mailing list > Openoffice-os4(a)samfundet.no > https://lists.samfundet.no/mailman/listinfo/openoffice-os4 > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com

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Re: [OO.org-OS4] Re: Getting involved - coding
by Belxjander Serechai 02 May '05

02 May '05

Faster to convert the M680x0 assembler directly to PowerPC assembler conversion to C is a different skill and keeping fixed registers for the lifetime of the program whomever wrote that code has created issues for anyone trying what you want... as registers don't map properly outside assembler --- Tony Wyatt <wyattaw(a)optushome.com.au> wrote: > Hi Belxjander, > > Maybe I didn't describe it very well. The project is > to convert 68k > assembler into C that can be compiled on the A1 to > native PPC code. But > there are some other implied requirements, for > example, it must run like > greased lightning and be portable code that can be > easily recompiled for the > next platform that AOS is ported to. > > I have translated most of the 68k assembler into > ANSI C, and I use SAS/C to > compile it into 68k binary. That binary runs on my > A4000 and on the A1 > (emulated) exactly the same way as the original > assembler version. When the > translation and debugging of the C version is > complete, I will use GCC to > compile it for PPC on the A1. > > The 68k code depends on a2, a3, a6 always pointing > to particular structures. > That makes it quick to call a function, because > those registers do not have > to be set up before the call. In C, though, I have > to pass the pointers as > function arguments each time. I *could* define a > proto that uses 68k > registers, but that would be useless when I > recompile the C code for the > PPC. Meantime I am stuck with having to load > arguments onto the stack for > the simplest function call, which in the 68k > assembler case, might not have > to load any registers at all. Bloody slow. > > So the question is really: is there a > platform-independent way to > allocate some registers as permanent pointers, > persistent over the whole > program? Has this problem come up elsewhere in OS4? > What have other > developers done? > > cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > Openoffice-os4 mailing list > Openoffice-os4(a)samfundet.no > https://lists.samfundet.no/mailman/listinfo/openoffice-os4 > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com

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Amizilla Joint Project
by Mark Bond 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hi, This is mainly aimed at hnl_dk as he was looking at creating an X11 wrapper, but a member of the Amizilla team has contacted us regarding working on a GTK library/port, and is asking if we would like to work on a joint project. It may be worth hnl_dk working with them on the X11 wrapper (ie if the X11 spoke to AOS/MUI/Reaction/whatever and then GTK spoke to the X11 wrapper). The link is here: http://www.amigaopenoffice.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=26&f… Regards, Mark

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new build guides
by Henning Nielsen Lund 16 Apr '05

16 Apr '05

There has come some new build guides, and now they are for OOo2(beta) :-) Linux (x86) http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.html Solaris http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_solaris.html DarwinPPC/MacOS X http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/build_680_X11.html Windows http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html A good thing about the Windows guide is that it gives a more complete list about utilities that are needed... -- Best regards, hnl_dk - Henning Nielsen Lund

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CSH status update.
by Peter Bengtsson 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

After installing gcc-3.4.0 and configuring it to use clib2 (with a severely kludged specs file), I have now tried to compile every source file in the tcsh source distribution as a quick way to determine the feasibility of porting it. I am happy to write that with a few exception it seems the tcsh source is _relatively_ portable. The main areas which seem to need a bit of work are the following: * termios * missing signals * resource limits * multi-user support * fork()/vfork() Of these, only the missing signals and fork()/vfork() appears to pose any significant problem and as a positive side-effect, we might contribute further to the development of clib2 (just an idea). The ixemul-compiled tcsh binary is extremely unstable on my machine and crashes randomly, usually in less than 15 seconds. It does, however, appear to handle csh scripts - which the older csh implementation did not (it only handled a subset). Unfortunately, this still does not indicate if it would be easier to write our own intepreter or not. -Peter aka. Archprogrammer, still investigating. PS: If this is uninteresting, just tell me and I will stop posting status updates here. Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.

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libusb library chrashes
by Rene W. Olsen 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello I have BIG trouble with my library for libusb and I cant find any error in the source code :( So if there is a library guru in here thats want to help me track down my error(s).. I can compile the barebone library with no problem but I cant open the library without the system freezing, and the openlib program never returns. I looks like it hangs in the library init function. I have striped all the function to track down the nasty error HELP PLEASE The source files can be found here: http://www.rwo.dk/libusb.lha Kind regards Rene W. Olsen

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PR, Banner Ads, Slogan etc..
by David Doyle 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

I think it's time we raised the profile of this project. Banner advertising is currently low on Amigaworld.net so I am willing to give the Amiga Openoffice.org project a free Banner slot on the site while advertising is low, so be quick and take this opportunity for free advertising to raise Amiga Openoffice.org's profile. So, did we decide on a slogan and banner? Regards David Doyle (DaveyD) Owner/Webmaster Amigaworld.net

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Perl 5 for OS 4
by Alexander Lohrmann 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi ! See this news article: http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2168 regards Alexander Lohrmann -- "It can't rain all the time"

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Catching Up
by Tony Wyatt 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I'm catching up after return from holidays and I see it's vewwy, vewwy quiet here. Is there a regular IRC on Thurs nights as before? I called in last week but was alone. I'm hoping to finish my OS4 development task in the next couple of weeks (or at least get it off the front burner), so then I can start looking at BerkeleyDB and Kaffe. cheers

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Test mail
by Henning Nielsen Lund 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

There has been a report of a failure of the mailing list... http://amigaopenoffice.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=26&func=… ... So I just wanted to test it. -- best regards, hnl_dk - Henning Nielsen Lund [Denmark]

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Test mail
by "Daniel Weßling" 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

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aspell
by Christophe Ochal 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Hello, Paul, did you get the chance to put your aspell sources on the cvs yet? I just checked & couldn't find them If cvs is a problem, archive & mail them please. Kind regards -- I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. -- Oscar Wilde 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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