Re: feasibilty of recompiling Aqua OOo for 10.2/10.3?

eric b wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I don't think the X11 version will
be workable in my 
>> mother's elementary-school environment.
> 
> Why ?  I remember I have an old X11 / XFree somewhere
too, and even a 
> Jaguar installed with SRX645 + SRC680 sources 

It's not a technical issue; I remember installing various
versions of X 
on old MacOS X versions before Apple released their own X11
port.  The 
problem is a social one: it's hard enough to get the
teachers to switch 
to new software as it is...the added hurdle of having
something that 
looks and acts so foreign to other MacOS software seems too
much.  At 
least, that was my mother's reaction when I showed her the
X11 version.

It's sounding like the best course of action may be for them
to stick 
with AppleWorks on the old machines until they are ready to
upgrade, 
switch to OpenOffice.org on the newer machines (the main
competition for 
them is iWork, which also requires new MacOS versions),
using .doc and 
.xls formats for interchange.  However, I'll give a 10.3
compile a try 
in a month or so, as the ability to work on older MacOS
versions would 
be a big selling point for OOo.

Regards,
Steven G. Johnson

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