On Monday 05 October 2009 11:16:04 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 09:41:00 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > On Monday 05 October 2009 10:10:14 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've just read email from KOffice developers and seems we did it right - > > > they are still strongly against shipping in stable distro. > > > > > > "I would like to restate that we strongly advised against shipping 2.0.x > > > in a stable release of a distribution. If you can't provide package for > > > 1.6, we consider that it is better to have no koffice than 2.0." by > > > Cyrille Berger. > > > > > > Jaroslav > > > > The warning can't be made any stronger. Thanks Jaroslav. Honest and to the > > point, Support that is expected from OpenSource. I will be removing > > koffice from my pc soonest. > > > Just for clarification - I've been running the betas for quite some time. I > don't think there's any problem with having it installed, and of course bug- > reporting is always helpful. It's just that there are some quite severe bugs > still to resolve. IOW, if you want to help and have time to, go on using > Rex's build, but don't expect it to be productions-system-perfect. It won't > be. > > As you say, it's fair and honest that the devs have made that statement. > > Anne > Probably no problem having it installed at all :) However, if for some reason I have trouble with a document then I won't be tempted to try to use Koffice and maybe make things worse. If I have it off the system it will be a reminder to me (that's just me) that there is a reason that its not on my computer and I shouldn't use it. I'm sure that once KOffice is back in shape we will get an announcment with deserved fanfare. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
