From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 10:13:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31701065672; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from xiurhn.etoilebsd.net (xiurhn.etoilebsd.net [94.23.37.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D428FC14; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by xiurhn.etoilebsd.net (Postfix, from userid 80) id C72807E833; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:13:42 +0200 (CEST) To: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:13:42 +0000 From: Baptiste Daroussin Message-ID: <1c58e33bebcbbd9d7c06a5c635259ba7@etoilebsd.net> X-Sender: bapt@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.3 Cc: Subject: Libreoffice plan 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: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:13:44 -0000 Hi all, First of all I'd like to apologise about the mess with the update of libreoffice 3.4, that lead us to the new policy about how to manage the libreoffice ports. From now we will be more respectful of what upstream do, which mean we will maintain two version of libreoffice, the legacy one (thanks crees for adding it) currently 3.3.3 that I will upgrade soon to 3.3.4 and the newer one currently the broken 3.4.2 which need fixes and will be upgraded soon to 3.4.3. As soon as 3.5 will be out the editors/libreoffice will follow that new branch, and editors/libreoffice-legacy will become 3.4 which hopefully will be stabilized at the time. Concerning how we will maintain the port them self, we are working to continue unbundling stuff from libreoffice, that should save some compilation time for users. You may have noticed some activity around hunspell/mythes/hyphen when fixed libreoffice 3.4 will be able to use the local dictionaries/hyphenation/thesaurus installed from ports, which mean you will be able to have the ${randomlang} dictionaries just by installing the concerned ports without having to rebuild a new LOCALIZED_LANG version of libreoffice. thanks sunpoet for the work he has done, and is still doing on that area. pgj has also been working a lot on libreoffice, he added the ability to built the sdk, and has done a great job concerning the l10n. libreoffice as openoffice are difficult ports to maintain, to not hesitate to join the office@ team to help, test, discuss about the office related task. regards, Bapt