[Libreoffice] Does --with-vendor still make sense ?

Petr Mladek pmladek at suse.cz
Thu Jun 23 10:37:53 PDT 2011


Caolán McNamara píše v St 22. 06. 2011 v 09:40 +0100:
> Should/do other distros still use --with-vendor=their_distro ?, and if
> so are we happy how that reads in help->about, is it a bit clumsy ?

Well, only the official build should use the vendor TDF. You are right
that we need to modify the text for other vendors. What about to just
replace the following strings when --with-distro is used?

     The Document Foundation -> distro
     Oracle -> TDF
     OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice

=> we get:


+ official build (default):

--- cut ---
Copyright © 2000, 2010 LibreOffice contributors and/or their
affiliates.

All rights reserved. This product was created by The
Document Foundation, based on OpenOffice.org, which is Copyright 2000,
2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. The Document Foundation acknowledges
all community members, please find more info at the link below:
--- cut ---


+ distro build (--with-vendor=XXX):

--- cut --- 
Copyright © 2000, 2010 LibreOffice contributors and/or their
affiliates.

All rights reserved. This product was created by XXX, based on
LibreOffice, which is Copyright 2000, 2010 The Document foundation and/or its
affiliates. The Document Foundation acknowledges all community members,
please find more info at the link below:
--- cut ---


Best Regards,
Petr



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