Re: plans around openoffice-4 and -devel?

On 10 Jul, Ronald Klop wrote:
> Hi maintainers of the openoffice port,
> 
> We have openoffice in our ports tree.
> It uses Java, but in its current form it can only compile with openjdk8.
> OpenOffice also uses a couple of Java libraries that are on
> unsupported upstream versions. I just added a
> apache-commons-httpclient CVE to our VUXML database that was already
> discovered in 2012. The only user of this port in our ports tree is
> openoffice.
> 
> So... I'm wondering what the plans are with openoffice. Will it get a
> leap into the modern world of Java? Can you compile it without Java
> support?

The upstream trunk branch was just patched to use modern Java.  It should
be easy to merge this into the branch for 4.2.X, which we snapshot and
package as -devel.  This change will probably not make it into 4.1.X.

I don't think it is possible to build without Java, or at least not
without losing major functionality.  I'll look into building without
apache-commons-httpclient.
 
> NB: I'm not a user of openoffice. But I'm looking into cleaning up the
> ports tree of old Java ports. NB2: I looked into
> https://repology.org/project/openoffice/versions and noticed that not
> a lot of the major pkg repositories (like Debian or Ubuntu) ship
> openoffice anymore. But that is not really my concern.
> 
> Regards,
> Ronald.
>