On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi. > > FYI: as I informed a while ago, I made a project proposal for OSU capstone. > > The project has been selected, so we will have 4 students working the next > months to achieve the following: > > http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/viewproposal2013.php?id=16 > > extract from above: > > motivation: > "Apache OpenOffice is the biggest open source office package, with 65 > milllion downloads of our last version. A number of other open source > packages are derived from OpenOffice, and incorporates patches and > enhancements from AOO. > The AOO source code is very big, 121 languages, 233 modules and 2933 > makefiles (including sub-makefiles). As programming platform, we use C++ > (bulk part), Java, Python, Perl and some special libraries > The build system is old, a combination of perl and dmake, and has grown > over the years into a non standard, hard to understand non documented > system. > At the same time, we want to attract more developers, therefore we want to > make a new build system based on modern technology, which are easy to use > especially for windows developers." > > goal: > "The goal is to: > 1) make a build system suitable for use with microsoft visual studio > 2) make a build system suitable for use on linux (makefiles) > One of those systems should be the primary one and the other one should be > automatically generated. > The team must first understand how the current system works in general, and > then build scenarios how a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"perfect\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" system > would look like. > Second task is to implement it, in parallel with the existing system > Third task is to help test it on the different platforms we support. " > > > I will mentor the students, but hope that the community will be behind me > and help as well. If the students turn out to be motivated they can, as > volunteers and committers, be a real bonus for the project. >
This is very cool. Thanks for applying and making this happen. It is a big task, but improvements to the build system would be a big benefit to the project. One question: When you say "microsoft visual studio", did you mean a build fully integrated into the IDE? Or where you thinking more of a command-line build that could be invoked as a command line tool, using Cygwin and the VC++ compiler? I would not be of much help on the technical side of this, but as the project makes progress perhaps I can help publicize the accomplishments via a blog interview or something similar. Regards, -Rob > Another apache committer who lives close to the OSU have promised to help > me as well. > > I am aware there are very different ideas about how a new build system > should look like, but lets use this possibility to get moving, if the > result works it cannot be less "nice" than the current system. > > are anybody with knowledge of build.pl etc. interested in helping out ? > > rgds > jan I. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
