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Yak
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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: Neoffice 2.0 Schedule? |
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By Neooffice 2.0, I mean the neooffice version of OOo 2.0.
Just wondering what kind of a timeline we are looking at.
Keep up the great work! WIth my new mini, and the newer neooffice, it's actually pretty darn usable. Was a bit slow on my old 533 machine... And even worse on the 500 mhz ibook, hehe. |
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pluby
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otaku
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Two quick comments:
1. Have you spoken to the people at MacSpeech? They funded at least part of their development by selling Founders T-Shirts for $100 each. Not sure how much they raised.
2. It appears to be very difficult to jump in and help with the programming effort on Neo/J. Pardon my hubris, but would it be a better use of the current developers valuable time for them to work on making the app easier to work on, so that more people could pitch in?
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OPENSTEP
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Part of the problem is that OOo/StarOffice is a *huge* legacy codebase. 8.5 million lines of crufty C++ code commented in German. There's not much 2 guys can do to clean up that 
In a way it's kind of like the juncture Netscape 5 was at years back when it was "scrapped" and Mozilla/FF came into being. Unfortunately, OOo will not last for years in mothballs while it gets rewritten, especially if it doesn't have a large corporate sponsor funding the rewrite. It really is almost too fugly to survive
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ovvldc
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | Part of the problem is that OOo/StarOffice is a *huge* legacy codebase. 8.5 million lines of crufty C++ code commented in German. There's not much 2 guys can do to clean up that |
I didn't know you guys speak German..
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OPENSTEP
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Heh. I learned my German from opera. Knowing how to say "drink the blood of the dragon" and similar drivel doesn't help much. I'm a slave to the babelfish which, for some ironic reason, is really bad at translating technical jargon 
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ovvldc
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | Heh. I learned my German from opera. Knowing how to say "drink the blood of the dragon" and similar drivel doesn't help much. I'm a slave to the babelfish which, for some ironic reason, is really bad at translating technical jargon |
Yes, Wagner might have composed his works with the future in mind, rather than the past. Quite vexing...
Have you tried ultralingual? It only does words, not full text, but seems pretty exhaustive.
Luckily, tech jargon often borrows really heavily from English.
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