Re: solaris/smartos support planned?

On 01/12/12 03:19, Tim Janik wrote:
> On 30.11.2012 21:20, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > Hi there,

Hello all,

> > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:05 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > > On 30/11/12 15:51, Yaroslav Tarasenko wrote:
> > > > are there any plans to have solaris port of libreoffice oficially
> > > > supported?
> > > > What is the opinion of developers on the topic? Is there a future
> > > > for solaris/illumos port?
> > > if somebody steps up to do the work, sure why not...
> >         Of course; last we heard Lanedo was doing some of the work there - and
> > got it at least running on Solaris/X86 using gcc (which should be the
> > preferred route going forward).
> >
> >         No doubt they'd give you some pointers if you wanted to help out with
> > some hacking there - I believe their latest work was checked into
> > master; if you want to contract them for support on that platform I'm
> > sure they'd be interested too :-) I guess the trick is to start the
> > build and send patches in.
>
> That's all about right.
> Due to lack of demand, we've been holding still on the Solaris front
> lately, I'm CC:-ing Martyn who should have a better idea about the
> latest state here.

Thank you Tim.

Yes, I believe we've fixed most of the pressing issues, which included 
an assembler fix from Kris and several crashes from Pierre-Eric. For 
details about the work we've been involved in, you might be interested 
in our tweets/blog posts:

  https://twitter.com/LanedoTweets/status/223009040383488000
  https://twitter.com/LanedoTweets/status/227357747673436160

Yaroslav, if you're interested in support, I would love to discuss that 
opportunity with you. Let me know if you're interested! :)

--
Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.