On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 04:28 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > > Well, Peter asked the question on the list before starting to work on > > it and and the consensus was that for these limited cases the benefit > > outweighed the cost. > > Indeed - the outcome of the: > > 'use of apache ant in libreoffice' > > thread from Wed, seemed (to me) to be that there is an advantage to > being able to properly parallelize and gnumake-ify the java compiles, > and if there are (increasingly) few java pieces and we can drop ant in > some star-trek future as a build dep, that is surely no bad thing. > > Clearly there is then no prohibition on using ant, or external / java > packages that require it - but Peter's patches seem to convert two of > the five modules using ant to (cleaner) gnu make files in the process > and leave only: beanshell scripting and xmerge requiring ant. > > Seems like progress to me, I'd love to see that included.
I'm going to work on converting the other ant modules soon. I'll commit these 2 patches after I finish testing them a bit more. Peter _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
