Re: [SLE] OpenOffice 2.0 AND 2.1

On 30/12/05, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kai Ponte wrote:
>
> > My guess is - like Apache - many people are still using the
> > depricated version (heck, they're coming out with 6.0 very shortly)
> > and Novell didn't want to upset anyone.
>
> A lot of people don't like being bleeding edge. There are occasionally
> problems in newer releases that will prevent you from upgrading. I for
> instance am still running php 4.3.8 because an ancient problem with
> setlocale():
> (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31594)
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
>
Ah, could this then be a problem for those using the download version
of SuSE 10? It does not have Java at all. Yes, it can be downloaded
from the Jem Report pages but there is an inconsistency by shipping a
version of OO.o that will not function properly as it is.

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