Tino's diary

Quite some time has passed since my last blog entry where I announced that I've completed the clipboard bridge for the Aqua port. My full-time job working on a wonderful product called Sun Ray required most of my attention in the last couple of months so there was limited time for voluntary work (yes contributing to OOo has been spare time fun for me for almost two years meanwhile ;)). But today I'm happy to let you know that I've finally managed to finished my work on the Drag&Drop implementation. I hope you'll enjoy it, it's coming (very) soon.

I'm happy to continue the series of good news for the Mac porting project with the announcement that I completed the implementation of the clipboard service for OOo on Mac OS X. That means that data exchange via clipboard is now possible for the most comonly used formats (e.g. Plain text, RTF, HTML, Pictures). Even OLE data exchange between OOo and MS Office works reasonably already. All changes are in module 'dtrans' of cws aquavcl01.
I hope you'll enjoy it.

...because almost every time you are doing this in 'cws aquavcl01' you get some new exciting results of the work the Mac porting team is doing. The OOo Aqua port is moving nearly at the speed of light currently.
That said - if you wanna have more fun do a 'cvs update' in module 'dtrans' and you'll get the first results of my work on the clipboard implementation for Aqua OOo. This is still work in progress though but its possible now to paste various data formats into Aqua OOo.
Have fun. :)

Just last minute cws 'macosxmapfiles' did happily make it into OOo 2.2 (integrated into SRC680 m202). This is great but why should you care? As announced a few days ago already this cws fixes some severe exception handling issues in OOo on Mac OS X. So the effect of this cws is far-reaching. Every OOo developer and tester on Mac OS X is well-advised to re-evaluate crashes and strange issues he experienced with earlier milestones.

Two long-standing issues bothered the Mac porting team in the last few month:

1. The UNO-Bridge for Intel Mac's did not work error-free (see #i69351#)
2. The testtool constantly crashed on Intel Mac's (#i69378#)

I'm happy to announce that with the integration of cws 'macosxmapfiles' both issues will be fixed!

But there is more to it than just that. Due to some necessary fixes in the build environment for
Mac OS X the whole installation set is now approx. 50MB smaller than before, the process
of creating shared libraries on Mac OS X is now more reliable and flexible.

This was a rather big child workspace and multiple helping hands did assist me along the way.
I'd like to thank especially Stephan Bergmann, Daniel Boelzle and Pavel Janik for their expertise
and support.

After some slowdown in the last few weeks the work on the Aqua port of OOo will now again proceed faster. Reason for the deceleration was simply that OOo 2.0.3 deadline is close and the Mac OS X porting team decided to shift resources toward this release and do some important fixes for the PowerPC as well as for the Intel Mac version of OOo. The Aqua port certainly also benefits from this accomplishments. With OOo 2.0.3 the Intel version of OOo is in a pretty good shape and should be usable without any major problems.

I should have mentioned in my last blog entry that Eric Bachard helped me a lot getting my first build on the new Intel Mac through. Thanks again for this Eric! Just wanted to say that.

Apple was so generous to donated another two Intel iMac's to the Mac OS X porting team. As announced already Stephan Schaefer and me got one. These are not only extremely beautiful machines they are also as fast as lightning and very noiseless. Thank you very very much Apple. This not only allows us to push OOo on the new Intel Macs forward but also the Aqua port in general.
My first OOo build already finished successfully on the new machine in about 5 hours - a major improvement compared to the nearly 15-20 hours needed on my iMac G5 (without ccache).