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Re: Open Office on Amiga
« on: December 12, 2003, 04:58:37 AM »
OpenOffice on Amiga is impossible, just like Mozilla. Why? It uses too much of linux, to put it simply. You'd have to port maybe dozens of external parts OpenOffice uses. Replacing them is pointless: it would be almost as much work as coding a fully featured office from scratch.

Anyone wanting to port it will at very least have to port the GUI kits or wrap them to native GUIs (which don't have all the features you need, so you'd have to implement them manually). Then they'd have to implement APIs and features that AmigaOS doesn't have, the infamous Fork() being the simplest.

It's not a big task - it's an enormous task. There is no-one left who has the time and the skill, and there is too little code infrastructure to help them.
 

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Re: Open Office on Amiga
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2003, 03:25:11 PM »
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If it is less work to write a modern Amiga Office Suite from scratch, why has nobody done it yet?


I guess nobody wants to spend months of their life in hard work with no return, and the only thanks being bug reports, criticisms and their software being pirated to hell.
 

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Re: Open Office on Amiga
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2003, 03:49:05 PM »
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I guess nobody wants to spend months of their life in hard work with no return, and the only thanks being bug reports, criticisms and their software being pirated to hell.

Open source, free software? Pirated to hell? Phaaa...


I was talking about doing an office from scratch. What makes you automatically assume it would be open source?
 

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Re: Open Office on Amiga
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2003, 03:51:28 PM »
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I don't see anything Linux'y about the Win32 version...


I've never used OpenOffice for win32, but if it's like Mozilla, it doesn't use the Windows GUI system, but rather its own inbuilt GUI. This is one of the reasons Mozilla is slow.

Is OpenOffice the same? Or has someone spent a lot of time and effort Windows-izing it?