On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:25:06PM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Oleg, > You are not misreading my email. OOo is an immense product with thousands > of packages and a high rate of change. The redesign that you suggest is > happening all of the time, it's just a huge project and it will take a > long time. > > Anyone who understands what it means to work on the development of this > technology can tell you that it is not realistic to expect that the build > procedure can be simplified to the point where it only takes a month or > two to learn. This just isn't in the cards. That's why we are proposing to > make our build environments avalable to selected members of the public. >
Other examples demonstrate that it is feasable: Gnome and KDE are both huge projects with numerous libraries (some developed externally and some developped in-house). And yet the process of building them from source has been totally automated. Including builds from the CVS tree (and pulling the source from the CVS repository). Abiword and mozilla are both cross-platform projects that also build quite smoothly, from what I know. They may not be as large as Oo, but not that much smaller. And mozilla is by now developped in a very distributed fashion (heck: they invented the bugzilla and some other useful tools). BTW: while you are now wearing the Sun Rep. hat, I realise very well that you're the wrong tree to bark at, And that the offer that you give should at least help in the current development where you can. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
