Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:50:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: lscolby@ibm.net (L. S. Colby) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: itcl and star office Message-ID: <199608310550.HAA07010@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3227A4A5.1142F1CE@ibm.net> from "L. S. Colby" at "Aug 30, 96 07:34:13 pm"
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As L. S. Colby wrote: > Star office has been ported to linux as an elf exe requiring motif > runtimes or perhaps lestiff. > Are there any plans to approach the developers of this product and > request a Free BSD version? I doubt they will do it, though it's perhaps less work than they would expect. The Linux port itself was a huge amount of work for them, and it basically started out as an inofficial project of some of their team members who happen to run Linux at home. It became officialized only very late in the game. Most of the problems they reported were related to gcc's C++ bugs, that's why i think a FreeBSD port won't be much effort. OTOH, they had to spend a lot of personal energy into the Linux port, and their folks only did it since they were personally interested in Linux. As long as there's nobody among them who is personally interested in FreeBSD, you could guess about the chances... (In case somebody wonders, one of them wrote an article for the `iX' magazine here.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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