OpenOffice64

Revision 3 as of 2005-11-03 23:52:24

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Summary

OpenOffice.org currently is built on amd64 using the i386 binaries, because the application is not yet completely ported to 64bit. Evaluation of the current state of the 64bit native build of OOo2 on amd64 is needed. Decide between the 64bit build and the current practice of using the 32bit build on amd64.

Rationale

It's a burden to separately maintain the i386 packages (prepackaged i386 libraries and applications) for amd64. If the application is 64bit clean, a lot of maintainance effort can be saved.

Implementation

  • Native packages are currently built for amd64, but the build is broken intentionally after the packages are built. Change the packaging such that native packages (suffixed -experimental-dont-complain-if-it-doesnt-work or something similar) are produced, which conflict with the i386 packages.
  • Continue to build the i386 based packages for amd64 (update the ia32-* packages as well).
  • Follow the upstream milestones for packaging (leading to 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3 ...)
  • Make a test plan how to compare the two builds and check the uploads according the test plan.

    • basic tests, not specific to amd64 (FormalTestPlans)

    • some whitebox tests, targeting problematic areas, where 64bit issues are known to exist.
  • Decide which version to ship with dapper, based on those test results.

Outstanding issues

  • Determine a date when the decision for i386/amd64 binaries has to be made (DapperReleaseSchedule).

  • Some sub-tasks which could be subject to a bounty might be identified.