On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:06 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > I was following the OOo 2's locale and language packs discussion, > however I may lack some background here... And hence I have some questions: > > 1.- Are the Fedora folks involved in any way on OOo 2 development? Caolan and I work on OOo for Red Hat. We both have a fairly long history with the OOo project, Caolan longer than I. We've both contributed code to the project. > 2.- Is there a test build for Fedora or something? Or the only way to > get OOo 2 Beta is from the project's official site only? Test RPMs are in Rawhide. > 2bis.- In the event you get the packages from openoffice.org's site, > will installing them remove/overwrite OOo 1.1.3? They should not. > 3.- Once OOo 2 is released, most probably Core 4 will include it, but > will be also made available for previous versions of Fedora by means of > the Extras repository? (this would actually be cool!) Most likely not, since the build process uses a lot of the gcj/gij stuff, which only got up to speed with GCC 4.0, which will not be released for FC3. Dan -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
