From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 10 11:44: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACC537BCAC; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:43:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@tc1-26.cybcon.com [63.163.56.27]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26487; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000410183914.29399.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: bwoods2@uswest.net From: William Woods To: John Daniels Subject: RE: staroffice install Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, bwoods2@uswest.net Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, I dident realise its only a beta.... On 10-Apr-00 John Daniels wrote: > Hi: > This is what I know from the Sun website: > > - 5.2 is a beta, it is not released S/W > - downloading 5.2 is only possible until the end of the month of > April. > - the license on 5.2 expires on June 1st (may not be the exact > date, but close enough) > > I am only a FreeBSD user, but it would seem that given that the 5.2 beta > will only be available for very short time, and that the useful life of the > 5.2 beta is at most a couple of months, it probably doesn't make a whole lot > of sense to make it a port. Maybe if it is *very* easy to modify the 5.1 > port, then a port can be made, but I for one am not holding my breath. > > 5.2 is due to be released in the summer (sometime in June?). > > John > >>From: William Woods >>Reply-To: bwoods2@uswest.net >>To: John Daniels >>CC: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: RE: staroffice install >>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT) >> >>Regarding StarOffice: >> >>I notice there is a new StarOfice up at suns sight. .2 I believe it is. I >>currently have StarOffice .1 installed, from the ports. It is running >>well,. >>Are there any planes to update the port to handle StarOffice .2? >> >>---------------------------------- >>E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net >>Date: 10-Apr-00 >>Time: 10:54:53l >>---------------------------------- >> >>NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, >>Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this >>address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US >> > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net Date: 10-Apr-00 Time: 11:43:13l ---------------------------------- NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message