Updating the Feature Comparison page*s* in the wiki

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

OK, so Samwise has jumped right in and is going after some of our lingering problems in the wiki.

First on the hit-list is the mostly out-of-date NeoOffice 1.2 Feature Comparison page. This page is mostly accurate for Neo 1.2, but is missing any accurate comparison to OOo 2.0.1 X11 (which was current, more-or-less, when Neo 1.2.x was released). What I'd like to do is very quickly bring the section about Neo 1.2.2 vs. OOo 2.0.1 up-to-date (and correct any errors elsewhere in the page) and then move on to a *new* page for Neo 2.

(The idea being, at some point, we'll swap the 2.0 page in for the 1.2.2 page at that url, but keep the 1.2 page around for posterity, like we did with the Neo/J 1.1 version.)

The new page for Neo 2 vs. OOo 2 vs. Office 2004 will need the largest amount of work, given the massive changes in moving to the OOo 2 codebase. For now, we should compare 2.0 Alpha 4 to 2.0.1 X11 (although I expect 2.0.3 should appear "soonish" and 2.0 Beta sometime thereafter).

Samwise · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:22 am Post subject:

Well, this is great news.

Since you answered all my questions, I'll be able to start working on it as soon as I've got enough time (although it seems that I'll have much less time available this & next week than I thought I'd have when I sent you a message yesterday).

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Quick question for you 10.4 folks: I believe Apple shipped Spotlight importers for MS Word documents with 10.4, but are there Apple-provided importers for Excel and PowerPoint as well?

Smokey

Samwise · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

OPENSTEP · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

I think they do ship with the OS. The importer is named "Microsoft Office", so I think it covers everything (/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter). Its Info.plist indicates it can index Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

ed

Samwise · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

Nother thing about the feature comparison pages : Start OpenOffice.org is not compatible with the 2.0.x line of OOo/X11, I wasn't 100% sure of that but I just tested it; unless someone knows what I've been doing wrong (Start OOo is looking for an OOo installation folder, and you can't simply choose the Applications folder, or put OOo/X11 in a folder and specify that folder), I think it should be removed from the Feature comparison pages.

I don't know how much Finder integration is provided with the new 2.0.x versions of OOo/X11, but I think that we should simply leave "Partial" and remove the asterisk (I think we have enough asterisks on the feature comparison pages already).

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

actually start openoffice.org can be used with the 2.0 line, there is a wiki page about it =D

Samwise · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

OK. Found it. No useless updating then.

P.S. I still think that the feature comparison pages have too many asterisks, especially the one for Neo 2.0. Has anyone else an opinion about this ?

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Samwise · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:25 am Post subject:

I see that the feature comparison pages are now considered up-to-date. I'm not sure, though, that the following statement is 100% accurate :

NeoOffice is far more integrated with OS X than the X11 version on which it is based. Rather than relying on X11, NeoOffice uses Java and Cocoa to bridge the gap between the OpenOffice.org interface code and Apple's OS X.

I can clearly remember Ed saying that NeoOffice is not based on the X11/Mac version of OOo. So, what should we do about this ?

MacRat · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that info is out of date.

Neo 2.0 is based on the linux port.

OPENSTEP · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

We pull our code only from the release tags used for the official releases on Win32/Linux/Solaris. Neo no longer pulls any of the code from the Mac X11 specific cws or other branches.

ed

Samwise · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

So, what should I put on the Wiki instead ?

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Samwise · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

I see the page has been updated several times; I'll see what I can do about the French version. And I see that the OOo/X11 team has released 2.0.3 in another foreign language, English Smile