OO is not written in java. Can't the sucks threads DIE ALREADY??

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:45 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Walter Francis wrote:
> > What a bunch of stupid crap, of course OO isn't written in Java, you don't
> > have to have Java installed to use it, so how could it be written in
> > Java.
> 
> Mostly.
> 
> There are parts of (Sun's version of) Open Office that are written in
> Java, and you do have to have Java installed to use them.
> 
> The version of OO.o that comes with Fedora 3 does not have them compiled
> in.
> 
Exactly.  OOo does not have a java dependency on FC3.

> I understand that certain Red Hat employees are working on a gcj-based
> version of (the java parts of) OpenOffice.org 2, which might or might
> not come in Fedora Core 4. The full release of OO.o 2 is due pretty
> close to the projected release date of Fedora Core 4.
> 
> James.
> 
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