Hello all,

as the Amiga system needs more and good stuff, now someone (think it was one of th Frieden brothers) started to port / organize to port the Open Office suite.... my idea is to "join effort" so that this great piece will be ready as soon as possible... are there some open minded Peg/MOS users who would like to help out??

this would be a great and wonderfull thing....i cant wait to see it in 12 years when the port is finished hehe........this is the bigest undertaking on the planet. i hope thye are up to it

NO Offense
But this is absolutely silly. It will NEVER happen. That BS on aw.net means nothing. There are NO developers working on it. Its just TALK.

It would take a very serious team of high level people a long time for a port like this so, it will never happen.

Please dont bring it up again, it is very delusional.

thank you

magnetic





[ Edited by magnetic on 2005/1/9 4:02 ]

@magnetic

You need to get past your pessimism.

@all

For those that actually have faith in such an feat, I recommend you jump on board and get involved. Don't let the MOS/Peg versus AOS/A1 debate get in the way of such progress.

[ Edited by AmigaMac on 2005/1/9 12:45 ]

@magnetic

agreed about the pessimism, its to much and it is getting old. I have no problem if you think its a worthless effort but dont condem the people who are willing to try. my veiw is it is going to take a team of 100 incedibly tallented coses a very very long time (5 years+) but if they want to try more power to them. there are other single aplications far more portable that could be combined into an office, such as abiword, gnumeric, pointless, and others

abiword Gnumeric pointless

[ Edited by poundsmack on 2005/1/9 5:43 ]

@Magnetic

Agreed. The change of Open Office ever appearing for Amiga is about the same size as if you stopped trolling.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 05.10.2011 - 17:10 ]

I am sorry to sound negative, but I agree with the rest of you. Such
an undertaking would be of enourmous proportions and will never be
completed IMHO. It will probably be one of these projects (no names
mentioned) where someone gets this bright idea, people start to
discuss it online, a debate of which name to choose comes up (like
should it have the "Ami" preface or not?) and then someone says "hey,
we need a webpage" and some enthusiastic HTML guy puts one up, a logo
by Eric Scwartz is proposed and accepted, and then ... nothing. It
fades away into a void. We have seen lots of ideas/projects that
follows a similar pattern, and most of them has been a piece of cake
compared to this one! I won't hold my breath, and honestly, my opinion
is that these huge efforts are better put elsewhere.

Who would work many years for free?

OpenOffice should use SDL...

Till now "we" have about 25 people involved... with more than 10 good programmers... thats much more than people working on the Mozilla port or working for "updating" MOS...
Sure there are lots of project who are closing after a while, but better to start than trolling around doing nothing! What would you say when in some month you are seeing results???
btw... "we" are not coding the Office suite ... "just" porting! and as more people are willing to help... less time is needed... nor?

I'd like to see it done as much as any of you, but I tend to agree on
the fact its huge and not likley to happen any time soon. I would like
so see something like Papyrus improved. Its a damn good option as it
stands now. Why invent the wheel all over again?

I think some guys in this forum might being overreacting...but I guess that I do understand them.

But it is time to be positive, I mean sure OO is big, it is so enormous. But correct handle it could be possible to port. If the guy is correct that they have 10 guys working on the port then mayby it is time to some of the genius in the morph world help them out (so that morph also get OO).

Personally I would like to help but I am no genius I have no Amiga or Pegasos and Ihaven't the money needed for bounties...

I also think that it would be better porting AbiWord, gnumeric and so on. The problem with OO is that you can do a lot of work and no working office, if concetrated effort first on a Word-program, then excel and so on. It might be easier. BUT I do which the AW.net people good luck, they will need it

Its not pessimism its called REALISTIC.

Having been in the Amiga market for 10+ years I'm so tired of cheap talk and delusions.

Lets support current developments and focus on attainable goals.

Open Office, Mozilla and such are not possible at all in the current amiga situation, period. If you want to believe it, thats cool - its pure fantasy IMO.

Just becuase a bunch of L a m e users (like me) post up on forums or create a mailing list doesnt mean that actual coders are working on these projects. Thats the stupid part. Take a look at all these threads - there are no developers posting.

Its rather humilating... but I digress.. I wont post anymore on this topic I'll let you guys have fun with it....

I dont mean to sound negative or condecending, just tired of bs...

There are many good things happening though so lets focus on that..

And please make your voices heard with $$$$$ NOT TALK... buy Payprus, buy Pagestream, buy Amiga games, etc etc...




magnetic


[ Edited by magnetic on 2005/1/9 21:26 ]

[ Edited by magnetic on 2005/1/9 21:26 ]

ok here is my final take, if they want o use there time to do it mroe power to them. i personaly think there are better choices, for exapmple suporting papyrus, but if they have a team and have the will to do it i see no reason in putting them down. I also see no reason for any of us to get our hopes up about the port as it is a long stot so no one should hold there breathe. any development is good development, even if the project stopes they now have that much more experience coding and may choose to code something else for the platform. anyways you look at it it is a good thing. if nothing happens nothing if different from now, if someohting happens well thats really cool. no one looses

@magnetic

Ok, I don't believe that they manage to get it ported. But please stop shouting...

OOo is really nice, I use it frequently, but I do not see a too high
priority for it on MOS. We have Papyrus now. Not tht papyrus is the
best and only office solution one can think of, but it works and it
is available *now*.
Sure, I would welcome an OOo port for MOS, but
there is other stuff which is in a worse situation for MOS... B4 there
is no decent web browser, MOS will never get a good reputation. *That*
is the most important thing IMO. Office situation is not too bad
with MOS as it is today...

Till now I don't see anyone willing to help, only negative thoughts about that... seems that only AOS4 developers are in that.... sorry that most MOS people are so solitary... (no bounty, no urgent stuff, no comments from developers, .... "you can add your 2cents here"...)

@Jonny_Rico

i wish you and your team the best, please keep us all posted

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Well, if you are impressed by such numbers, there are 303 people on the Amizilla Mailing list, 11 developers are registered at sourceforge. Still only 2 have committed to the CVS..

Talking and porting are two very different things. But hey, impossible things are the best thing to do ;).