LibreOffice 7.0 call for testing

[Li-Wen Hsu]

Pre-built packages for 11 and 12 amd64 are available at
https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/libreoffice/

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:42 PM Dima Panov <fluffy at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> 7.0.0.RC2 is landed, release is around the corner.
>
> As always, please welcome to test.
>
> --
> WBR, Dima. (Desktop, KDE, X11, Office)@FreeBSD team
> (fluffy at FreeBSD.org, https://t.me/dima_panov)
>
> > On Thursday, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:17 PM, Dima Panov <fluffy at FreeBSD.org (mailto:fluffy at FreeBSD.org)> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > LibreOffice 7.0 branch is over to release candadate and office at FreeBSD team calls everyone interested to join us in testing cycle
> >
> > Our WIP repository available at GitHub, https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice, branch 7.0.0
> >
> > Of course, we support ports’ OVERLAY feature by adding:
> >
> > OVERLAYS+=/path/to/freebsd-ports-libreoffice
> >
> > to /etc/make.conf
> >
> > Poudriere users should follows next steps:
> >
> > sudo poudriere ports -c -F -p portoverlay
> > cd ${LOCALBASE}/poudriere/ports/portsoverlay
> > git clone https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice .
> > git checkout 7.0.0
> > poudriere bulk -j 121amd64 -p portstree -O portsoverlay editors/libreoffice
> >
> > Or you can use pre-built packages with default options.
> > Take yours from https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/libreoffice/
> >
> > You can start the LibreOffice with x11 UI backend by setting
> > environment variable:
> >
> > SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
> >
> > where ‘gen’ can be replaced by x11, gtk3, qt5 ,kf5, depends on selected build options to get a required vcl active
> >
> > Current known issue is missed vertical and gorizontal scrollbars with gkt3 vcl.
> > Qt5 vcl is already locked to use cairo font renderer.
> >
> > Patches and suggestions are welcome!
> >
> >