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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:32:16 -0700
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On 5/13/2012 5:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> John Boyle wrote:
>> "UPGRADING" TO AOO VER. 3.4 is TOTALLY
>> OUT! It is obvious to me that it is NOT an "UPGRADE" but a COMPLETE
>> REWRITE
>
> It is not a complete rewrite. Virtually all the existing 3.3 code is 
> still there; new code has been added, many bugs fixed and some 
> third-party libraries (not part of the "real" OpenOffice code) have 
> been replaced.
>
>> the reason for the effort was because the program was being dropped by
>> its original developers
>
> Several OpenOffice 3.4 developers have worked full-time on the project 
> for more than 10 years.
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
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To Andrea: If it was simply an upgrade, as all others in that line up to 
version 3.3 were upgrades, then you would not have to go in and 
completely rearrange what you have on your computer to that install an 
ALMOST completely different version of the program which would then take 
your past data! Sounds to me like too many people are jumping on this 
"Windows 7" mentality and making things as difficult as they can, yet 
with that excuse that they been at it for so long that they should know 
better than the users .AOO ver.3.4 is as close to a total rewrite as one 
can be and yet allow the data to the used in it! I don't have the time 
to play with my registry, nor all these other files that people had to 
jump Through the hoops to get this "upgrade" to work! If all these 
developers had been working on this project for 10 years, as was said, 
WHY couldn't they make it a simple install over all of the versions of 
OpenOffice that have been around? I have been urged to switch to Libre 
Office for the very same reasons I have just stated! I think that all 
the effort of 10 years work has simply been A intellectual playground 
and the common user has just simply been forgotten!:-( :-( =-O =-O

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