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LibreOffice 4 Released

Posted by timothy on from the whole-numbers-is-best-numbers dept.

Titus Andronicus writes "LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released. Some of the changes are for developers: an improved API, a new graphics stack, migrating German code comments to English, and moving from Apache 2.0 to LGPLv3 & MPLv2. Some user-facing changes are: better interoperability with other software, some functional & UI improvements, and some performance gains."

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  1. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenOffice/LibreOffice is like 90+% C++. The Java bits are mostly irrelevant.

  2. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Admitting that you don't understand the difference between a plugin and Java itself brings you closer to actually knowing what you talk about.

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  3. Re:Why this dilution? by denis-The-menace · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oracle tossed OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation after LibreOffice took-off in terms of features, bugfixes and mind-share.

    OpenOffice is about 2 years behind thanks to Oracle.

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  4. Re:MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Informative

    That started happening as soon as they forked.

    Sun made it really hard to get some changes made upstream, and some developers were unwilling to hand over copyright on their code contributions. So OpenOffice stagnated for many years.

    There was a cleaner, more feature-rich version called go-oo (which many Linux distros shipped, without really telling anyone they were getting the fork). That fork because the basis of LibreOffice. Once they weren't tied to staying close to the OpenOffice base, they started cleaning cruft like mad.

    In case you didn't notice, they added a bunch of new features, while the size of the installer dropped from 200 MB to 183 MB in this latest release.

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  5. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? by swillden · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenOffice/LibreOffice is like 90+% C++. The Java bits are mostly irrelevant.

    To be precise, as computed by sloccount, libreoffice-4.0.0.3.tar.xz contains:

    cpp: 3990644 (87.04%)
    java: 400958 (8.75%)
    ansic: 91036 (1.99%)
    perl: 42456 (0.93%)
    python: 17392 (0.38%)
    sh: 17256 (0.38%)
    yacc: 8228 (0.18%)
    cs: 6648 (0.15%)
    asm: 3269 (0.07%)
    objc: 2602 (0.06%)
    lex: 2030 (0.04%)
    awk: 907 (0.02%)
    pascal: 800 (0.02%)
    csh: 235 (0.01%)
    lisp: 115 (0.00%)
    php: 104 (0.00%)
    sed: 7 (0.00%)

    However, as Desler said, the Java bits are actually optional.

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