[Gllug] OpenOffice, from source using GCJ or ECJ

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On 14 Nov 2006, Chris Stromblad spake thusly:

> 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 ;)

Easily, because they reinvented *every single* wheel. It's a widget set,
a GUI framework built atop that, a pile of dispatch layers, it has its
own object model, its own i18n layer, et seq ad nauseam.

Just about the only thing it doesn't reinvent is X, and that's probaly
only because they can't.

It's a pestilential program, proof of the worst the isolationist
reinvent-it-all proprietary model can do. (The ugly mass long predates
its open-sourcing.)

-- 
Rich industrial heritage: lifeless wasteland. `The land
north of Mordor has a rich industrial heritage.'
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