Re: Au revoir & fare thee well

Alex:

Your service was and is much appreciated.  I understand your
frustration
and that Sun appears to be leaving behind many Mac users. 
Sun is not alone
but they are missing about 1/2 of the Mac people by
abandoning or making it
difficult to maintain PPC builds.  Soon, my PowerBook G4
will be good for not
much more than a door holder.

James


-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgoodfree.fr>
>Sent: Oct 4, 2007 12:53 AM
>To: macporting.openoffice.org
>Subject: [mac] Au revoir & fare thee well
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Although not a regular contributor here on this list,
I'm retiring from active 
>service on testing and reporting on the Mac ports. Aside
from the technical 
>difficulties of maintaining a PPC port for 10.3, which I
fully understand, 
>the real issue for me has been the one relating to
Kohei's Solver module and 
>the way Sun (or Sun Legal, easy to blame those bad legal
guys, I'm one 
>myself  ) has
once again (mis)handled the whole issue. I shall probably 
>remain subscribed to the list, just won't be posting
anymore. Good luck 
>everyone with the Aqua port, you'll need it. 
>
>Alex Thurgood
>
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James, Alex, 
Am Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:47:57 -0700 (GMT-07:00) schrieb James

Mckenzie:
> Alex:
> 
> Your service was and is much appreciated.  I understand
your frustration
> and that Sun appears to be leaving behind many Mac
users.  Sun is not alone
> but they are missing about 1/2 of the Mac people by
abandoning or making it
> difficult to maintain PPC builds.  Soon, my PowerBook
G4 will be 
> good for not
> much more than a door holder.

Please don't only blame Sun on this, it's also Apple forcing
us to 
use and stick with 10.4.x and newer because of the
improvements 
that are done with 10.4.x upwards and the freezing of the
java 
Framework before 10.4.x and the soon to com freeze of Carbon
for 
10.5.x plus the impossibility to use other coding
environments as 
the ones Apple provides. 

I think everybody from the coders tries it's best to keep
OOo alive 
on the PPC as long as it will be able to run 10.4.x. Also
keep in 
mind that we only have two full time coders from Sun
compared to 
say at least 30+ for all the other plattforms. Once we have
30+ 
coders for the Mac it may be possible to develop a Carbon
(or maybe 
it's possible with the Cocoa version too) version that can
be 
backported to 10.3.x but as long as this isn't case we must
stick 
with what makes coding easier even if this means to drop
support 
for older Versions than Mac OS X 10.4.x.

Just my 2 Eurocents 
Eric


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