Re: [libreoffice-users] Raspberry Pi Raspbian - official or port?

Hi :)  
The Pi version is an unofficial version afaik but not a full fork.  Hmmm, it's not even that clear, 
it's an official Pi program but just not officially recognised by The Document Foundation.  At 
least not yet.  

Hopefully both the Pi people and TDF devs are working to make it official but my guess is that they 
need people to use it and confirm that it works.  


Something i wouldn't normally do is quote from Wikipedia but in this case they appear to be spot on
"In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from 
one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of 
software. The term often implies not merely a development branch, but a split in the developer 
community, a form of schism" 
further clarification at      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29

All that Pi have done is take the official source code, cleverly and painstakingly worked out which 
options and settings they need to apply and then compiled the code (which is an automatic process 
that takes many, many hours during which the machine needs to be left to get on with it).  Exactly 
the same as our devs do for the official versions.  If our devs knew more about Pi or if the Pi 
devs were also part of our community then it would have been an official build.  Presumably that's 
something they all hope to achieve in the future.  

So, the Pi version is kinda currently an unofficial version but not a full fork.  


When you talk about installing to Usb there are a LOT of options there.  Are you familiar with 
Gnu&Linux partitioning?  With Gnu&Linux it's fairly easy to get many drives working together as 
though they were just one drive.  

You can often make a system more robust  by moving your /home directory onto a physically separate 
drive.  Then if you ever feel the need to you can wipe and reinstall your OS while still ensuring 
that none of your personal data&settings gets affected.  Here is a guide 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving
but the Pi forums might be good for advice.  They might have an easier way or better advice.  

Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Kieran Peckett <crazyskeggy@gmail.com>
> To: Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl> 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2013, 15:56
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Raspberry Pi Raspbian - official or port?
>
> The only reason I asked was just out of curiosity, as I saw it in the store
> (though unfortunately it won't fit on my 4GB SD that came with my kit -
> time to think about running from USB I think)
>
> Thanks for the clarification of the term "fork". At first I thought a fork
> was when someone took the code of another app and changed it to work with
> their needs (In this case converting x86 code to ARMv6 / ARM11)
> On 21 Mar 2013 09:34, "Mirosław Zalewski" <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>
> > On 20/03/2013 at 22:20, Kieran Peckett <crazyskeggy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just a quick question: Is the version of LibO on the Pi Store (an app
> > store
> > > for the Raspberry Pi's Rasbpian distro) an official build supported by
> > TDF
> > > or is it a fork of LibO?
> >
> > It's hard to tell. It depends of your understanding of "official" and
> > "fork".
> >
> > They are not "official" in the meaning that TDF does not provide arm build
> > of
> > LO. That also means that .debs downloaded from TDF site will not work on
> > your
> > Raspberry Pi.
> >
> > But they are not "fork" either, as they don't have separate branding, their
> > own website, team of developers or any new features.
> >
> > In fact, these are binary packages build on Debian infrastructure from TDF
> > sources, with some downstream (Debian-specific) patches. Such patches
> > usually
> > provides better integration of program with distro-specific tools or fixes
> > compilation errors on architectures not supported by upstream, but
> > supported
> > by distro (and Debian supports nine architectures, while TDF only two).
> > Sometimes they also provide features or fixes from newer version of
> > software;
> > but as far as I am aware, Debian LO maintainers tend to not backport
> > anything.
> >
> > Another question is: what does it change, if packages are "official"? It's
> > not
> > that TDF provides any commercial user support anyway.
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Mirosław Zalewski
> >
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