Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
I see there was a historical attempt to upgrade the build environment to gbuild which migrated some modules (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort), and a more recent attempt, Capstone 2013, to get AOO to build in Visual Studio.
Yes and we have branches for both of them, even though gbuild is currently stalled. Note that we have a third one too, see http://markmail.org/message/q4n3lv4tex6boljq (Markmail archive is discontinued due to technical problems on their side, but old discussions are OK).
Have we chosen a final build system yet?
We had some long discussions on this, the last of which can be seen above.
successfully migrated one dmake module (formula) to gbuild, so if there are no objections, I am going commit those changes and carry on migrating other modules.
No objections on my side. Of course the focus is now on wrapping up 4.1.2, but everything that makes trunk better is good too!
Our current hybrid build.pl + dmake/gbuild system is complex, ugly, slow, unreliable, and hard to maintain
We all pretty much agree on this. The reason it has existed so far is that it works and that streamlining it has little (or zero) user-visible benefit but requires significant effort.
and I believe it's also a barrier of entry for new developers
It could also be a way to recruit a few ones, if you want to follow the Capstone experience from last year (with a gbuild-targeted project this time). If you feel you could use help from a small student team, you can apply as a mentor (by tomorrow) at http://s.apache.org/um ; as Jan reported, these initiatives have mixed success, but it might be worth trying.
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