> And finally, whether it would make any sense from the technical point of view > for LibreOffice contributors to even try to participate in OOo at ASF depends > very much on what actually ends up there, and in what direction it is taken > by the presumed main driving force, IBM. For all we know, it might be that > the code that is eventually dumped in ASF's SVN (!) is a subset that doesn't > even build, and then IBM starts adding its own hitherto proprietary stuff > including build mechanisms that makes it into a completely different beast > than what we are used to. I suspect lots of Java is involved, and that is not > necessarily that popular around here. As if understanding and using the "old" > OOo build mechanisms which have been somewhat adapted at LO wasn't hard > enough.
Good point, Tor. Is the source code available somewhere already? I wouldn't join any Open Source project if I can't see the source code first :) -- Jesús Corrius <je...@softcatala.org> Document Foundation founding member Mobile: +34 661 11 38 26 Skype: jcorrius | Twitter: @jcorrius _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
