Developer News about porting OpenOffice to Darwin PPC, Darwin Intel and Mac OS X
Developer News
January 20th, 2006:Starting April 2005, there were several donations made to the MacOSX Porting Team of OpenOffice.org. We would like to extend our thanks to those who made these donations to the MacOSX Porting Team on this web page. Porting OpenOffice.org to MacOSX X11, MacTel (MacOSX for the Intel processor base) and MacOSX Aqua is easier with these donations.
January 17th, 2006: New timeline
October 2005: OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Mac OS X (X11) is here!
October 1, 2005: Updated Mac OS X build instructions to match milestone 130 and recent developments making OOo compile using gcc 4.0 and Mac OS X 10.4.x
August 27, 2005: It's now possible to use gtk and kde themes with OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. As experimental work, Eric Bachard provided some screenshoots : Panther theme using gtk plugin . Other screenshots (with other themes) are available here. As you can see here, the new crystal icons set looks interesting too. July 3, 2005: Updated build instructions for Mac OS X 680_m113 and higher. Please review and report mistakes to mac@porting.openoffice.org
February 10, 2005: At the OOoRegiCon, Simon Phipps called upon the OpenOffice.org community [blogs.sun.com] to recognize NeoOffice [neooffice.org] as a part of a wider OpenOffice.org community of collaborators all working to achieve a common goal. Hopefully his message will be heard, hopefully no one will need to "discover" NeoOffice any longer, and hopefully the drastic need for OpenOffice.org X11 will no longer be ignored. Without Mac OS X (X11), there no foundation upon which to even dream non-X11 versions on Mac OS X.
January 20, 2005: First screenshots of milestone 1.9.71s1 running on Mac OS X (X11) by the great work of Eric Bachard. There is still much work to still be done before getting a fully functional version for X11, so drop on by and lend a hand today!
October 29, 2004: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Aqua port slows. With lack of a dedicated X11 team, 2.0 doesn't even compile "out of the box" for X11, and Cocoa development has slowed as well. The only current Mac OS X non-X11 development is the NeoOffice/J [neooffice.org] fork of OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, which is all the time I (Ed) have for myself. We desperately need your help! Go checkout 680 and help Eric Bachard, Eric H., and all the other Mac OS X diehards port it today! Check out the mailing list archives for the most recent 411.
June 27, 2004: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 for Mac OS X (X11) is now available for download.
March 29, 2004: Updated 1.1.1 Build Instructions
March 29, 2004: OOo 1.1.1 - soon for Mac OS X. We're finalizing pieces of the installer right now, and hope to have builds propagated to the mirrors this week.
August 19, 2003: Screenshot of OpenOffice.org 1.1 running under X11 on Mac OS X 10.2. Click to enlarge.
August 18, 2003: Development of OpenOffice.org 1.x on Mac OS X has been limited to X11. All development of Quartz and Aqua versions has been postponed to OpenOffice.org 2.x with expected delivery in late 2005 to early 2006. See the timeline for details.
June 23, 2003: It's official! After months of testing and bug fixing, OpenOffice.org is pleased to announce the availability of OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11). This release runs with X11 graphics provided by either Apple X11 or XFree86. Download it now, join the project and mac@porting.openoffice.org mailing list. Hunt for bugs; test features; make suggestions. Help us deliver the best open source office suite for Mac OS X and Darwin!
