[Gllug] OpenOffice, from source using GCJ or ECJ

[Peter Childs]

On 14/11/06, Chris Stromblad <chris at fragzone.se> wrote:
> The code does look intimidating at first, but once one has navigated
> around the directories for a while, it's not too bad. What I
> entertaining however is how a, seemingly simple, program can turn into
> this monster of a code base.
>
> Who would have thought that the most complicated software would be a
> WYSIWG document editor ;)

Hmm Try Spreadsheet, Come Drawing Packate, Come Database, Come
Presentation and you start to reliese why Openoffice is a fine example
of Bloatware. If you then add the history of OpenOffice/StarOffice
you start to reliese that its going to be not very easy to read the
code....

Peter.

>
> When you do get around to start compiling it, do drop a mail on the list ;)
>
> // Chris
>
> Nix wrote:
> > On 11 Nov 2006, Chris Stromblad stated:
> >> My question is simply to ask if anyone on the list has successfully
> >> built OO from source against an Open Source java implementation, like
> >> GNU java or eclipse?
> >
> > Getting this working (again: it was once but keeps breaking) is next on
> > my todo list (probably for this weekend).
> >
> > I'll probably try it twice, once with 4.1.1, and once with tip-of-tree
> > once the integration of ECJ as GCC's new Java frontend stabilizes. (I
> > jest not.)
> >
> >> Any help, direction, tips, advice is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Despair and prayer are common reactions when seeing the OOo codebase for
> > the first time. Do not abandon hope, it is comprehensible.
> >
> > Eventually.
> >
> >
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