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posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the differences-are-good dept.

I find the Libre Office Update tool for the Windows version of the Suite is not really worth having at all. A notice will pop up indicating that an update is available, but the tool just goes to the Libre Office web site for you to download the full package manually. Compare that to the Pale Moon web browser, which will download small update packages when a new version becomes available. You do not need to remove the old version of Pale Moon to install the update, because its update tool takes care of it automatically.

Libre Office is a high profile Open Source application, I am surprised that their version for the Windows operating system does not have an easy upgrade path. I think that working on the Upgrade tool would be a worthy upgrade to the Suite, and the current version is holding back adoption of it.

Disclaimer: I am not a programmer, so I can't write an upgrade tool on my own. Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).

[Ed note: I was debating whether or not to run this story. Sounds like it could lead to a good discussion. If LibreOffice can download deltas on other platforms, why not on Windows? What practical reason could there be?]


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @05:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @05:17AM (#425006)

    Yeah, I've seen that in my experience as well. I think that can be 100% explained by software momentum. The higher ups started out with WordPerfect and have refused to move to anything else. However, that trend does seem to be reversing because the larger firms are transitioning away because they have non-US clients and WP doesn't support Unicode or they like the Office 365 + 2016 use case of being able to access and edit anywhere and they don't have the same sort of compatibility issues. Smaller and medium size firms are also moving away because they are either too cheap (last I checked WP was almost $200 bucks), momentum of their own from new blood, Office 365 features, or are copying what the big firms do in an attempt to copy their success.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @01:58PM (#425116)

    WordPerfect does line numbering the way that lawyers need it done ("pleading line numbering"). Courts have very picky requirements about line numbering, and Word never did it well. WordPerfect supports it out of the box. Some academics and architects still use WordPerfect for right-hand margin line numbering, too.