On Wednesday, 23 September 2015, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi > > 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. > > Have we chosen a final build system yet? > > The reason I ask is that I became quite familiar with gbuild in the > course of migrating our unit tests to Google Test, and have already > 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. > > Our current hybrid build.pl + dmake/gbuild system is complex, ugly, > slow, unreliable, and hard to maintain, and I believe it's also a > barrier of entry for new developers > (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis). LO has > already migrated their build system to pure gbuild. Shouldn't we? ?? Not sure why I am copied on this mail not being committer I have no saying in what to choose. I do not see any specific questions for me, so please do not fill my inbox (I read dev@ from time to time). rgds jan i > > Regards > Damjan > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
