OO.org 2.0?

[Rui Tiago Matos]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:25:41 +0100, H. C. Brugmans <hcbrugmans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Rui Tiago Matos wrote:
> 
> >Hello, Chris Halls (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/ChrisHalls) seems
> >to be taking care of this. Maybe we will have some unofficial apt
> >repository as I guess OOo 2.0 is going to be released too late to
> >enter Hoary.
> >
> >Actually I'd like to know what's the status of OO 2.0 in Debian which
> >I think the Ubuntu one is based upon. Either way you can compile OO
> >yourself after Hoary using the Debian sources (once it is packaged
> >there). I do it in Warty with ex. Firefox 1.0.
> >
> Openoffice is a typical production package. You can get it as a
> backport, or get it from the development branch, but since it is the app
> you do a lot of work in, you'd need to do that on your 'production' rig.
> Now, for any other app then openoffice, this would probably be
> acceptable, but not now.
> It concerns me that we haven't seen a build yet. I gather the preview
> build is quite stable, and I'd like to see how it behaves.
> If it's pretty much stable, it should be in, besides OO1, maybe.
> This is a package that many people will switch distributions for, and it
> would be unfortunate to have some other distro run away with the users
> that came to ubuntu because ubuntu was the first to get Gnome 2.8 in.
> That'll happen, no doubt.
> For me as a student, I would be hard-pressed not to move if I read a
> review of a desktop-distro with OO2 in it, actually.

In this context it is interesting to read the announcement of features
for Fedora Core 4 (http://lwn.net/Articles/119500/). Note that they
too aren't sure if OOo 2.0 is going to make it.