Hi Damjan and others; Indeed a new build system is very desirable but it is difficult to choose one. I agree that choosing one which we already have a need for in dependencies is wise.
FWIW, I looked into some of the options myself: - Google's Bazel looked very promising: http://bazel.io/ But it lacks support for Windows at this time. - CMake has been chosen by LLVM, and by a bunch of projects that need to be built cross platform. There was an aborted attempt for OOo: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_CMake_Integration CMake, I understand, has been evolving a lot though. - FreeBSD and NetBSD share a powerful bsd make utility. FreeBSD is still in the adoption process, and I can't say at this time how it compares with gbuild: http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/460.en.html I haven't looked at scons and I am not objecting to it. Certainly anything is better than Dmake. My only comments, referring to Python, are: - We have somewhat of a chicken and egg problem now with Python as the build system is making it difficult to update our copy to something like 2.7.11 that supports newer Windows compilers. - One thing I would like to see at some stage is the possibility of using native windows tools like IronPython and Strawberry Perl instead of the cygwin stuff. Pedro. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
