Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
Mattthew D. Pitts (mpitts@suite224.net)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:49:15 -0500
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> From: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
> To: Mattthew D. Pitts <mpitts@suite224.net>
> Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com; Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>; Marc
Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 8:01 PM
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:45:20PM -0500, Mattthew D. Pitts wrote:
> > > that version it will stop working for you as well.
> > >
> > > p.
> > In other words, glibc 2.1 is broken.
>
> Do you want to share any reasons for this bad claim? The fact that
staroffice
> uses undocumented functions in 2.0 that were removed in 2.1 is an
established
> fact.
>
> And yes, staroffice is broken. If you claim otherwise you really have to
back
> this up (but you can't).
If they couldn't do it (whatever depended on the now-missing functions) any
other way, it wouldn't be. With Visual Basic on Windows, some functions in
VB are "intentionally" undocumented and haven't been removed (yet).
> It is a big deal, as many distributions wanted to switch to 2.1 but
couldn't,
> because suddenly a few of the comemrcial programs stopped working.
Did the glibc 2 developers check with the commercial software developers to
find out if said functions were in use?
Matthew D. Pitts
mpitts@suite224.net
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