On Jun 29, 2011 7:54 AM, "Jens-Heiner Rechtien" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/29/2011 01:19 AM, Greg Stein wrote: >... >> This process sounds exactly like what the "buildout" tool[1] is >> designed to handle. It seems like a good opportunity to move from >> OOo's homegrown system to something that is supported, documented, and >> maintained by others. > > > The system we currently have is effective - and it works now. I agree that there are better and more standard ways to do this but I guess it's not our first priority, maybe not even our second. It's a whole lot of stuff and it has to work on Windows as well. > > Introducing something as buildtools will be the perfect time sink for someone overhauling the build process. And I would hate it if the change would stop somewhere in between - I've seen many tries to standardize stuff in OOo which ended prematurely leaving us with *two* ways to do things. It's very easy to underestimate the effort given the sheer size of OOo. > > Of course if someone is willing to do this, that would be great. But it takes a lot of commitment to see the changes through.
Right. Agreed! Just throwing it out there. I think it could be a great way to reduce maintenance in the long run, but recognize there is a big hurdle to cross first. >> Reviewing those patches would also be good. Try and get more of them >> upstream. For example, I saw some patches to Neon in there which >> should get pushed upstream, and also move to the latest version of >> Neon. > > > Always a good idea to do this, but if I remember right especially neon was occasionally unresponsive regarding some of our patches. But I guess every downstream project complains about upstream being unresponsive :-). But I know that we've updated neon support regularly over the last years. Yeah. We'd always like upstream to love us :-) In this specific case, I saw it and wrote about it because Joe Orton (author of Neon) is an ASF Member. I suspect we have a good channel of communication :-) (I also consider Joe a friend, ever since the WebDAV days of 1998) Cheers, -g
