Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Christian Lohmaier skrev: Hi Marcin, *, 2009/7/16 Marcin Miłkowski milek...@o2.pl: Christian Lohmaier pisze: I still disagree. Basically /all/ of the questions asken on IRC about building OOo were because people are unable to read configure or because they don't use vanilla build

[dev] Re: [documentation-dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Per, IMO this is a great and valuable job. A very big + from my side :-) Cor Per Eriksson wrote (15-7-2009 11:09) Hello, I am cross-posting this to dev and documentation, but think that best would be if discussions run on dev, as many of the details probably will be discussed there.

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hello Regina, Regina Henschel skrev: Hi Per, Per Eriksson schrieb: I have created the guide here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Development/OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide And these are the page created so far: OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Hi Christian, i really don't understand what your problem is. Maybe you missed the goal of Per's work, it is simply the consolidation of several different pages into one new place, put some structure on it and extend or improve it where necessary. From my point of view structure is always

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Marcin Miłkowski
Hi Christian, *, Christian Lohmaier pisze: Hi Marcin, *, 2009/7/16 Marcin Miłkowski milek...@o2.pl: Christian Lohmaier pisze: I still disagree. Basically /all/ of the questions asken on IRC about building OOo were because people are unable to read configure or because they don't use vanilla

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hello, Marcin Miłkowski skrev: I doubt that the new documentation will cause less questions. Maybe there will be more questions because less people will be intimidated to build OOo and try their own patches. Yes Marcin, you are right and I really hope so. It would be great. Because it

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hello, Here is how far I've come so far. Several pages' content have now been moved to these 7 pages: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Development/OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide They originate from various places (which can be hard to find), including:

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Jürgen, *, On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Juergen Schmidtjuergen.schm...@sun.com wrote: i really don't understand what your problem is. My problem is that everyone is eager to start new projects, new efforts instead of improviing what is there already. My problem is that if you really

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi Christian, Christian Lohmaier skrev: Hi Jürgen, *, On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Juergen Schmidtjuergen.schm...@sun.com wrote: i really don't understand what your problem is. My problem is that everyone is eager to start new projects, new efforts instead of improviing what is

[dev] Adding custom Form Control Elements

2009-07-16 Thread Jakob Mandalka
Hallo, is it possible to add custom Form Control Elements to OO Write? Background of this question is, that I want to add some new Elements to the already available XForms Designer. At the moment things like repeat and so on are missing. Thats why I wanted to know if it is possible to add a

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Marcin Miłkowski
Hi Christian, *, [...] The work Per is doing is not for the developers we already have it is probably more for new ones. Probably that's another part of the problem I have. This makes it sound like there wouldn't be any documenation for new builders at all. That's just not the case. There's

Re: [dev] Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi, Christian skrev: Probably that's another part of the problem I have. This makes it sound like there wouldn't be any documenation for new builders at all. That's just not the case. The problem which this effort is working with [1], has got a lot to do with problems with linking on our

Re: [dev] cws rebase failed

2009-07-16 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
Hi Max, Maximilian Odendahl wrote: Hi, SVN 1.5.4 is OK. so any idea why new files were not added during rebase? Sorry, no. Without a log it's hard to guess what went wrong there. Heiner -Max - To unsubscribe,

[dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Christian Lohmaier cloph at openoffice.org writes: My problem is that everyone is eager to start new projects, new efforts instead of improviing what is there already. Cleaning up the docs _is_ improving what is already there. My problem is that if you really feel the need of simplifying the

[dev] Interested in helping with development

2009-07-16 Thread Terrence Miller
I was laid-off from Sun's C++ compiler team last year and have not yet found a new job. To avoid going crazy with nothing to do I would like to become involved with Open Office. Low level C++ issues such as exception handling is the area I know the most about. I have access to systems

Re: [dev] Interested in helping with development

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hello Terrence, Welcome to our community. Nice to know that you have such fine competences in C++. I would currently recommend you reading the the following documents: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/I_want_to_be_an_OpenOffice.org_developer

Re: [dev] Interested in helping with development

2009-07-16 Thread eric b
Hi Terence, Le 16 juil. 09 à 18:02, Terrence Miller a écrit : I was laid-off from Sun's C++ compiler team last year and have not yet found a new job. To avoid going crazy with nothing to do I would like to become involved with Open Office. Low level C++ issues such as exception handling

Re: [dev] Interested in helping with development

2009-07-16 Thread Elizabeth Matthis
Hi Terence, I think it is exemplary of you to get involved. OOo is a great way to pass the time productively and have fun, too. Per already pointed you in the right direction, but I also thought I'd also point out: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram/Issues

[dev] Re: Interested in helping with development

2009-07-16 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Terrence Miller terrencem at sbcglobal.net writes: To avoid going crazy with nothing to do I would like to become involved with Open Office. Low level C++ issues such as exception handling is the area I know the most about. I have access to systems running Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. Hi

[dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Per Eriksson pereriksson at openoffice.org writes: Thanks for all the kind words. I have created the guide here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Development/OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide And these are the page created so far: OpenOffice.org_Building_Guide

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi, Bjoern Michaelsen skrev: great stuff, but can you make the source wiki pages from which the info in the Building Guide is collected #REDIRECT to the development guide? That would help weed out old and rotting duplicate content. I did that already with the Getting the source page (and also

Re: [dev]

2009-07-16 Thread T. J. Frazier
Per Eriksson wrote: - snip - In the meanwhile I will make sure to make the TOC available on all pages for navigational reasons ;-) Hi, Per I added a link to your Building Guide to the Documentation page on the wiki [1]. We have some nice TOC templates (see the Basic Guide or Writer Guide,

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi, I am looking at the instructions for Windows and is having the following thoughts: 1. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows#MinGW It says MinGW is not supported, but there are a number of referenced issues which have been integrated. What is the current status of using MinGW?

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Marcin Miłkowski
Per Eriksson pisze: 2. Is OOo completely buildable on Visual Studio 2008 or do we still need this note? Currently OOo isn't completely buildable with Visual Studio 2008 Express and Windows Server 2008 SDK due to missing ATL header / libs (these used to be shipped with the 2003 SDK, but the

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi, Marcin Miłkowski skrev: Per Eriksson pisze: 2. Is OOo completely buildable on Visual Studio 2008 or do we still need this note? Currently OOo isn't completely buildable with Visual Studio 2008 Express and Windows Server 2008 SDK due to missing ATL header / libs (these used to be shipped

[dev] Consolidating developer documentation

2009-07-16 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi List, While checking, sorting and refactoring stuff for the new building guide, I also ventured into our CVS/SCM/CWS docs. I merged/renamed some stuff, created redirects and tagged some stuff with categories (mostly development, SVN, SCM, CWS). However, there are quite some stuff that is

Re: [dev] Re: Consolidating build instructions for the community

2009-07-16 Thread William S Fulton
Per Eriksson wrote: 2. Is OOo completely buildable on Visual Studio 2008 or do we still need this note? Currently OOo isn't completely buildable with Visual Studio 2008 Express and Windows Server 2008 SDK due to missing ATL header / libs (these used to be shipped with the 2003 SDK, but the 2003