*/workben, what is that?
Hi all, I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it. Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about updating anything there? Regards, Khaled ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: */workben, what is that?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:50:57PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it. Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about updating anything there? These used to be standalone apps/manual tests, just to play around with the code specific of the module without a complete LibreOffice. As they are not build in the default build, they were in bad shape even in old OOo times (and newer have been moved to gbuild -- as they werent building before mostly.). So indeed, they likely should be killed for the most part as bitrot. BUT there is one exception I would make, which is the stuff you found first: vcl. We might at some point create new backends for vcl (or chisel out vcl, making it a wrapper around some other toolkit). For that, the examples in workben might be helpful to bootstrap and test iteratively, without having to support ALL of LibreOffice at once in the one huge step. Best, Bjoern ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: */workben, what is that?
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 17:50 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hi all, I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it. Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about updating anything there? I use sc/workben sometimes to store stuff that's important for us Calc developers but have no relevance in the build. Things like standalone OpenCL detector code that we could use as a reference code, script used to generate UTF-16 codes for some localized hard-coded text etc. For your purpose, you can just ignore those. No worry about updating them, but I don't want them removed. Kohei ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: */workben, what is that?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:10:55PM +0100, bjoern wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:50:57PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it. Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about updating anything there? These used to be standalone apps/manual tests, just to play around with the code specific of the module without a complete LibreOffice. As they are not build in the default build, they were in bad shape even in old OOo times (and newer have been moved to gbuild -- as they werent building before mostly.). So indeed, they likely should be killed for the most part as bitrot. BUT there is one exception I would make, which is the stuff you found first: vcl. We might at some point create new backends for vcl (or chisel out vcl, making it a wrapper around some other toolkit). For that, the examples in workben might be helpful to bootstrap and test iteratively, without having to support ALL of LibreOffice at once in the one huge step. Good to know, I think I can just ignore it for now then. Regards, Khaled ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
