This is wonderful news! (I'm 50% through a download of the
	binaries now :)

	Are there any plans to submit an entry for pkgsrc for this -
	to make it even easier for people to compile from source and
	generate known binary packages?

	Thanks again!

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --


On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Michael Rauch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce that the first alpha release of OpenOffice for
> NetBSD/sparc is now ready.
>
> This is definitely an alpha release, there are still some bugs and
> non-working parts in it, but most parts do run.
>
>
> For details, look at the following web-sites:
> - NetBSD/sparc (1.5) binary and build instructions:
>
>                    http://www.fs.tum.de/~mrauch/OpenOffice/
>
> - The OpenOffice.org project:
>     http://www.openoffice.org/
> - esp. the OpenOffice.org porting project:
>     http://porting.openoffice.org/
>
>
> If you'd like to help, please don't hesitate to contact
> me (mrauch-openoffice@fs.tum.de) or the OpenOffice porting mailing-list
> (dev@porting.openoffice.org).
>
>
> Michael Rauch
>