Re: About openoffice linux/mips porting

[Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn>]

Maciej W. Rozycki 写道:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Fuxin Zhang wrote:
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> > It is available at
> > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81482, any comments are
> > welcome.
> > Have an official openoffice for linux/mips might be a good thing.
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>  Hmm, why would anyone need to have asm snippets in a document processing 
> suite?  And it looks like the bits are ABI-dependent, so at least three 
> variations (if the changes are endianness-safe) would be required to 
> handle all the ABIs that we support.
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Openoffice wants to be able to interact with plugins written in many 
languages, instead of writting a module for each possible combination it 
chooses the so called bridge: every language interact with a common 
middle language.
>  It smells like OpenOffice is doing something outrageously wrong here...
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>   Maciej
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