Updates

[Wilfred Milton <wi...@hotmail.com>]

Hi. I have been using Open Office for quite a while new and have been very satisfied. No problems. I had an email today saying that an update was available, so I have spent about an hour downloading it, using up a large amount of my allocation of bytes on my server. On completion, I had a message to say that there was already a copy of the same prog installed, meaning that I had just wasted a lot of time.

Just a little confused. Usually updates are just that, and mean that there is an improvement of some sort.


Wilf Milton

 






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Re: Updates

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Wilfred Milton wrote:
> I had an email today saying that an
> update was available, so I have spent about an hour downloading it,
> using up a large amount of my allocation of bytes on my server. On
> completion, I had a message to say that there was already a copy of
> the same prog installed, meaning that I had just wasted a lot of
> time.

This is being discussed on the dev list. The OpenOffice project does not 
send personal e-mail notifications (we don't have the e-mail addresses 
of our users!) but it seems this is a notification coming from 
SourceForge, that hosts the OpenOffice downloads and apparently offers a 
service where people can sign up to be notified when a new version of 
OpenOffice (or any other software) is available.

Maybe (but this is not confirmed) the service got confused by the fact 
that we recently started to distribute version 4.1.0-beta. But indeed 
the latest stable version is 4.0.1, and the next stable version, 4.1.0, 
is almost ready and expected to be released by mid-April.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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