[Gllug] OpenOffice, from source using GCJ or ECJ

[Chris Stromblad]

Trust me, I've tried to read it. A slight problem for me is also due to 
the fact that I've done very little object oriented programming and 
looking at OOo, it's not pretty. For a new hacker, it's not very friendly.

For me, C has always been my choice of language and will probably 
continue to be so.

So yes, I agree, it certainly is bloated.



Peter Childs wrote:
> 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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