Caolan McNamara

A classic “all work and no play” OOo testcase which was really useful for me too track down an intermittent problem with OOo.

A simple OpenOffice.org cvs checkout script ooocvs to checkout OOo and optionally exclude the modules you don’t need to build, and trap failures on checkout and add afflicted modules to end of the queue.

changing openoffice.org’s tools->options->openoffice.org->memory cache settings does not change your startup performance. Really, it doesn’t.

Times from rpmbuild of rawhide OOo spec

Run started Thu Nov 3 11:12:35
…unpacking…
true build start time is Thu Nov 3 11:15:43
i.e. cd instsetoo_native/util && build –all
true build end time is Thu Nov 3 13:23:43
start langpack install time is Thu Nov 3 13:23:43
i.e. dmake ooolanguagepack
end langpack install time is Thu Nov 3 13:37:46
…debuginfo extraction, find-provides, find-requires…
Run finished Thu Nov 3 14:11:28 2005 -0500

i,e, actually building OOo code takes 2 hours 10 while installing ooo and its langpacks after the main build takes a quarter an hour and the rpmbuild post processing is pretty sluggish, taking half an hour.

Word 2
Have working Word 2 import filter support for OOo at the moment, Fixes such bugs as the ridicously low 2535 id. The rather odd thing is the similiarly between such old versions as Word 2 and the contemporary versions. So close that some small refactoring of the existing filter and a few little translation shims and ta-da, word 2 support.

As an aside re-implementing the defunct winword 1 filter on top of the current ww filter should be rather easy, and allow that older code to be deleted, though finding some word 1 documents to see if they work would be something of a challenge.

google
Nice to see that google is apparently going to concretely help in OOo. Often vaguely wondered what stuff they used to read .doc/etc for their indexing and “show as html”. Be generally a good thing to refactor our msoffice filters to not be tightly bound to OOo so they could be usable outside of OOo. Plenty of work there for google if they wanted , could also help polish up oooblogger for blogger.com as well.

random foo:
1. release plan for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2,
2. RedHat sponsered updated hindi translations for OOo.
3. Updated the hackery for faster helpcontent2 building.