Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

On 03/28/2012 06:19 PM, Per Jessen wrote:

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Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

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Hi,

I am curious when will Gnome 3.4 will be available for openSUSE? It's not in factory (I am running Milestone 2). Even LibreOffice 3.5 is not there yet, it's been a month of release I guess.

On the contrary Ubuntu has all the latest packages. I am just curious to know about the update strategy of openSUSE. I do love to play with latest packages and write about them so just wanted to know if I am missing something or it does take time for openSUSE to update to the latest packages.

I guess Ubuntu has more resources than we do.

That's sad :(

I'm only guessing, but given that Canonical is a commercial operation, it is reasonable to assume they have more resources available.

I am doing as much as I can to bring more users to openSUSE. Switched to it recently and loving it so far. Was just curious if I was doing something wrong -- maybe the packages were there but I couldn't find them.

They are probably available somewhere in the OBS repos. Have you checked those too? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Ah, I forgot to add the links ;-) Petr Mladek píše v Pá 30. 03. 2012 v 14:23 +0200:

Hi,

the good news is that the LO-3.5.2 packages should appear in the LibreOffice:Unstable project[1] the following week. I am getting very close to get it built. Also the first runtime tests look promising.

If it gets a good feedback, I will put the packages also to the LibreOffice:Stable project two weeks later or so.

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On Wednesday 28 March 2012 18:16:04 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: LibreOffice has surprised me too. The person normally building this has been unavailable and nobody has picked it up - a people thing...

I am the person who prepare LO packages for openSUSE. Well, I am also the person that helps with the upstream release. The LibreOffice project is still young. All people around do their best to make it successful. This is why I slightly preferred the upstream work over the openSUSE work last weeks.

Note that LibreOffice uses time based release process[3]. The result is that .0 release might include quite some annoying bugs. More conservative users should wait for later bugfix releases.

LibreOffice-3.5.0 was better than expected. I see the demand for the packages, so I need to change the approach for further releases. I think about creating another project LibreOffice:Head or so, that would provide packages based on last LO sources. If I update it frequently (every week or two), it will be easier to produce the packages for the final release.

Note that LibreOffice development goes quickly forward. It is not trivial software. I needed few days to update the packages from 3.4 to 3.5, make it built and work.

Reference: [1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/ [2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/ [3] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#Summary Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

phanisvara das píše v Út 03. 04. 2012 v 11:56 +0530:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:52:59 +0530, Petr Mladek wrote:

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the good news is that the LO-3.5.2 packages should appear in the LibreOffice:Unstable project[1] the following week. I am getting very close to get it built. Also the first runtime tests look promising.

i got libreoffice 3.5.2 from the LO-unstable repo today, and while i haven't used it extensively yet, it seems to work fine.

Yup, I have published it for openSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 yesterday. I have published it for Factory an hour ago. The build for Tumbleweed still fails because of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754146 I still have to fix build of the LagnaugeTool. Also, I need to fix build with debuginfo, with Java 1.5 classes, double check some things. Then I might be able to push it to Factory. Anyway, it should be well usable as it is now. Of course, feedback is welcome. Best Regards, Petr PS: The repositories are at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 04/03/2012 02:26 AM, phanisvara das wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:52:59 +0530, Petr Mladek wrote:

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the good news is that the LO-3.5.2 packages should appear in the LibreOffice:Unstable project[1] the following week. I am getting very close to get it built. Also the first runtime tests look promising.

i got libreoffice 3.5.2 from the LO-unstable repo today, and while i haven't used it extensively yet, it seems to work fine.

dito here -- Hans Krueger hanskrueger007@roadrunner.com registered Linux user 289023 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 29/03/12 12:03, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 29/03/12 03:16, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

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Hi,

I am curious when will Gnome 3.4 will be available for openSUSE? It's not in factory (I am running Milestone 2). Even LibreOffice 3.5 is not there yet, it's been a month of release I guess.

On the contrary Ubuntu has all the latest packages. I am just curious to know about the update strategy of openSUSE. I do love to play with latest packages and write about them so just wanted to know if I am missing something or it does take time for openSUSE to update to the latest packages.

Best Swapnil

I cannot comment about Gnome but you can go to the LibreOffice home page and download the 3 files of LibreOffice 3.5 and install them yourself. And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to do so! But read the instructions on how to install while you are on that site: http://www.libreoffice.org/ .

BC

Oooops! Sorry, but I forgot to mention that one needs to make sure that the file libpng12 is installed for 3.5 to work. BC -- The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 03/29/2012 11:10 PM, Lars Müller wrote:

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

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I am curious when will Gnome 3.4 will be available for openSUSE?

As soon as you branched the current version and contribute to changes back to lift it to 3.4. ;)

I wish I could. I am a journalist/writer who happen to use Linux. I do contribute by spreading the word and helping users in migrating to Linux. :-)

Didn't you raised the same question before? And there had been answers. IIRC the people working on this could need some help. See http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/2012-02/msg00772.html

Yes. I did. It said that it may be available in 3 weeks. It's more than one and half month now and I was just checking. I wrote articles about openSUSE (especially one where I mentioned why I switched from Ubuntu to openSUSE) but I got a lot of mails about my remark on latest packages. LO 3.5 has some nice features such as Grammar check. Windows/Mac users can just grab the latest version and install. Linux users have to wait until its in repos (I am talking about average users). So, a lot of users asked how do I recommend openSUSE over Ubuntu when they get latest packages. I did not have any answer. I do understand the resource crunch and by writing more about openSUSE I hope the user/contributor base will increase. I appreciate your time and effort in helping out users like me, who in return can't be of much help, at least from development point of view :-) Thanks Swapnil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org