From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 17 14:36:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693AA16A403 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:36:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com [68.99.120.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F324F13C43E for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03 ([172.18.22.61]) by dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with SMTP id <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:36:36 -0400 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16 (webedge20-101-1106-20040809) From: Vizion Organization: vizion Communications To: Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 7:36:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20070317143636.LMPK2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> Cc: youshi10@u.washington.edu Subject: RE: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:36:37 -0000 > >> They will? Why? > >> While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously > >> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the > >> current (and potential) user base. They could blow off FreeBSD - > >> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice. > >> OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users, > >> whatsoever. Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute > >> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected. > >> Welcome to the underside of open source software. > >> > >> > >> Robert Huff > > > > What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? > Sheesh, the > > OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported > browser and bad > > to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons > (riddled with > > security bugs). > > > > Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and > stuff, and I'll > > give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers. > > > > -Garrett > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually > needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that > instead it > just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles > portions of > OOo specifically using mozilla's headers. > > Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully > get through > without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk > space =\..). > > -Garrett Hi Garrett Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing David