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pluby
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 Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: FYI: NeoOffice 2.2.2 will be released in the next week |
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Yes, that's right. We are putting out a new release of NeoOffice. However, don't get too excited as it will merely be the same as NeoOffice 2.2.1 plus the latest test patch.
While this may seem pointless, the reason we are doing this is because of a new "feature" that we found in Mac OS X's installer tool in the latest Leopard seed. This feature is that the Mac OS X installer tool now deletes files that it considers obsolete before installing any new files. This feature causes our patch and language pack installers to render your /Applications/NeoOffice.app folder unusable. More details about this are in the following bug:
http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2650
I have figured out what triggers the Mac OS X installer to do this deleting and have made a minor modification to our main, patch, and language pack installers to avoid this bug. Since Leopard is coming out later this month, Ed and I thought it would be prudent to issue a new release with the fix as well as the many other fixes that we have made so far to NeoOffice 2.2.1.
There won't be an Early Access Program for this release as there isn't anything new that isn't already available in NeoOffice 2.2.1 or its latest test patch.
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pluby
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot to mention two details:
1. We will issue NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch 0 at the same time to allow existing NeoOffice 2.2.1 users the option of upgrading using a patch instead of having to do a full download.
2. We will no longer include the source in the main installer. Due to all of the custom icons, the source tar.gz was adding 16 MB to the download size and given that the very few people care about the source, providing the source via anonymous CVS seems a reasonable change.
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sardisson
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | | 2. We will no longer include the source in the main installer. Due to all of the custom icons, the source tar.gz was adding 16 MB to the download size and given that the very few people care about the source, providing the source via anonymous CVS seems a reasonable change. |
It's probably too late  but are you adding a note to the Readme indicating that the source can be found in anoncvs (and/or pointing to the build instructions, which actually tell people how to get the source from anoncvs)?
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Auria
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| sardisson wrote: | | pluby wrote: | | 2. We will no longer include the source in the main installer. Due to all of the custom icons, the source tar.gz was adding 16 MB to the download size and given that the very few people care about the source, providing the source via anonymous CVS seems a reasonable change. |
It's probably too late but are you adding a note to the Readme indicating that the source can be found in anoncvs (and/or pointing to the build instructions, which actually tell people how to get the source from anoncvs)?
Smokey |
is it for some legal reason?
cause otherwise, someone intending to build openoffice from source should be able to find this info on his own  |
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pluby
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Auria wrote: | | sardisson wrote: | | pluby wrote: | | 2. We will no longer include the source in the main installer. Due to all of the custom icons, the source tar.gz was adding 16 MB to the download size and given that the very few people care about the source, providing the source via anonymous CVS seems a reasonable change. |
It's probably too late but are you adding a note to the Readme indicating that the source can be found in anoncvs (and/or pointing to the build instructions, which actually tell people how to get the source from anoncvs)?
Smokey |
is it for some legal reason?
cause otherwise, someone intending to build openoffice from source should be able to find this info on his own |
No, I didn't add any of this to the ReadMe as the Readme already has several links back to the main page at http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/ and all of those pages have a link at the top of the page to Build Instructions.
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pluby
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: |
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FYI. NeoOffice 2.2.2 is now out and an upgrade patch (Neo 2.2.2 Patch 0) is available on the the patch download page.
Also, I updated all of the version and release date templates and text in the NeoWiki in all languages.
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sardisson
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| pluby wrote: | | Also, I updated all of the version and release date templates and text in the NeoWiki in all languages. |
I'll get to the "Release Notes" page (and our "friends" the update sites) later today.
But wow, you doing the version/date twiddling saved me a bunch of work! 
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hi_RAM
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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There is a mistake in the name of the Patch downloading window in French
"NeoOffice téléchargment du dernier correctif"
should be
NeoOffice téléchargement du dernier correctif
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pluby
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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FYI. I have correct all occurrences of "téléchargment" on the website.
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ovvldc
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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FYI, I corrected the link to the patch page on the forum announcement, but it was also wrong in the mailing list one.. Oh well, the only thing that can happen is that more people download the whole big one. Inconvenient, but not a showstopper.
Best wishes,
Oscar
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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No big worries. We also put a link to the patch upgrade for 2.2.1 users in the banner at the top of the pages, so hopefully people will see it 
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pluby
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | No big worries. We also put a link to the patch upgrade for 2.2.1 users in the banner at the top of the pages, so hopefully people will see it |
...and I send a correction e-mail to the NeoJUpdate list after I saw ovvldc's post.
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