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["Bob Cottingham" <bobcottingham AT hotmail.com>]

I would think that the binary spell would still be worth having in the 
grimoire, considering the amount of time it takes to compile the openoffice 
source (I hear 10+ hours).  Some people may like having that option in this 
case.  Would there be any reason not to have both?

Bob

> From: "Derber, Geoffrey" <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.Edu>
> To: "'sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org '" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: RE: [SM-Discuss] OpenOffice spell
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:14:24 -0500
>
> We already looked at the lunar version.  From my understanding, I didn't
> look at it personally, but some other people did.  Feel free to correct
> me if I got this wrong.  But basically what their spell does, is it
> temporarily installs everything to one directory, then runs the install
> watch to copy everything to another directory.  It's a really nasty hack
> which we decided wasn't worth it since the current open office spell is
> just a temporary place holder until we can get a source based spell to
> work rather than the binary.
>
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piero Ottuzzi
> To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: 8/6/02 5:50 AM
> Subject: [SM-Discuss] OpenOffice spell
>
> I saw that the "OpenOffice spell developer" had many problems about the
> spell and InstallWatch.
>
> Our own brothers of lunar-penguin had the same problem but they solved
> it: I think we could "spy" the solution and then to tribute them their
> own work.
>
> Any idea???
>
> Apiero
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