Thorsten Behrens wrote: > The story on win32 (and other, not-so-standard platforms I believe > you alluded to) is totally different, of course, but you won't fix > that by prohibiting sed & awk - fixing the root cause here means > performing cross-compilation for those platforms. > > (you need to build/debug natively on those platforms? sure, but > binning e.g. cygwin from the impressive list of ~14 build > prerequisites > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Development/OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows#software_requirements > means getting rid of the _least problematic_ one - trivial to install, > easy to update, free, built-in package management etc. - shouldn't we > rather eliminate the real deal-breakers there first?)
You are jumping to conclusions. I didn't talk about a particular dependency I wanted to avoid. I just wanted to point out that you seem to underestimate the value of a less diverse build system. Most probably because you don't have to maintain it. ;-) Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
