Hi Eric,
On 18.11.2011 10:00, eric b wrote:
Hi Andre,
Le 18 nov. 11 à 09:42, Andre Fischer a écrit :
On 17.11.2011 21:30, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
There are some odd cases of abandonware having no authoritative
location for downloading and also having OpenOffice.org-applied
patches. I think dmake is one of those. I have no idea how that ends
up but I think it means dmake disappears as a build prerequisite.
I am currently working on removing the dmake sources.
How do things work on Mac OS X ?and Windows ? Shall we install a "system
one" using respectively Fink/Darwin port , Cygwin ?
A dmake installed on the system is probably preferable. It can be
shared between different child work spaces (I am using this term in the
widest sense), and reduces the build time (by a little bit.)
There is dmake package for Ubuntu but there is no dmake for cygwin.
Other environments may or may not have it. So, making it a system
prerequisite on systems that do not have it ready-made is probably not a
good idea.
There is another thread about this, but you can also have look at
issue 118604 for the techincal details. The basic idea is to use a
pre-installed dmake executable by default.
FYI, OOo4Kids and OOoLight uses dmake too. Maybe this could help to
build on Mac OS X and on Windows probably ? (see below)
However, the user can provide a URL for a downloadable tar-ball, which
then is downloaded and built in bootstrap.
Maybe a crazy idea, but what about download dmake sources from Adullact
repo ?
Try (in main) : svn co svn://svn.adullact.net/svnroot/ooo4kids1/trunk/dmake
The good is this dmake version is directly usable everywhere. The bad is
that you mix two svn sources (maybe not realistic ... ?)
Well, I could extend the --with-dmake-url configure option so that it
can not only download a tar-ball but can also check out from an SVN
repository. But the advantage of that is probably small. After all,
dmake is basically a dead project with little or no changes that would
require a frequent remaking of the tar-ball.
Last but not least, Adullact is one big French non profit association,
working close to french administration, reliable and with high ethical
objectives. What about ask Adullact to host some problematic sources ?
Sure. Providing Apache OpenOffice specific versions of category X
licensed code may be a way to handle the modules that we are currently
removing. But I am not sure about the legal implications about hosting
code on a server that neither belongs to Apache nor the original author.
May be worth another thread.
Regards,
Andre
Regards,
Eric
