Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-15 Thread Simon P. Lucy
If you seriously want to redevelop OO then you need to rearchitect and replace in an incremental fashion. Don't try and convert code or even translate, instead concentrate on the features and replace using a micro architecture. S On 14 Oct 2016 12:48, wrote: > I have a suggestion that Apache sh

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Alex Suk wrote: > Damjan Jovanovic wrote > > But even at a rate of rewriting 1000 lines per day in Java, it would take > > 1 days, which is about 28 man years, to rewrite OpenOffice's 10 > > million > > lines of code... > > I am no programmer but this is very

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/15/2016 10:17 AM, Alex Suk wrote: Damjan Jovanovic wrote But even at a rate of rewriting 1000 lines per day in Java, it would take 1 days, which is about 28 man years, to rewrite OpenOffice's 10 million lines of code... Do 10M lines in C++ convert to 10M lines in Java? Is it a 1:1 con

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-15 Thread Alex Suk
Damjan Jovanovic wrote > But even at a rate of rewriting 1000 lines per day in Java, it would take > 1 days, which is about 28 man years, to rewrite OpenOffice's 10 > million > lines of code... I am no programmer but this is very interesting! Do 10M lines in C++ convert to 10M lines in Java? I

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Instead of Languages I rather would like to discuss overall architecture. The initial Architecture has not been changed much since it was introduced i think. But over time the requirements I see in the code have changed. Solving Requirements with code and without adjusting the architecture lea

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-14 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
This was discussed several times before. I was initially against the idea as Java can call C++ code easily these days (eg. JNA, BridJ), but changed my mind when I realized how developing OpenOffice itself in C/C++ is very difficult, and how much effort is wasted (portability (eg. Win64), problemat

Re: openoffice programming

2016-10-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/14/2016 3:24 AM, iamsuhailans...@gmail.com wrote: I have a suggestion that Apache should write OpenOffice using Java and Netbeans platform. Thanks for your suggestion. There would certainly be major advantages to it being in Java. We could do a single build for all platforms. Several fo