Hello Ocke, *, Ocke Janssen schrieb: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Jensen wrote: >> Hello Ocke, >> >> In your earlier email you mentioned volunteering. Possibly rhetorical >> to a certain degree. However, given two facts and two opinions it >> strikes me that I should not treat it as such. >> >> Facts are - the effort to setup a build environment for the full OOo >> packge and the information I have read about the time it takes to run >> on most PCs has lead me to avoid doing so - quite successfully I might >> add. > I know that building the OOo takes some time, but doesn't exist there > developer builds for it? > I don't know which platform you are using. I'm also interrested to test this features. I use Debian. >> >> Opinion one - I can't see actually trying to do any maintenance on >> code, that has to be added into a larger base particularly, when I am >> not willing to test it - so no build environment, no way to test. > Most Java tests can be run when you are using netbeans. The project you > are looking for might be qatest
>> >> Fact two - I do have all the tools up and running to compile the >> report.jar file from these sources now. So that is the end of my easy >> out excuse that I am not setup to help. > :-) >> >> Opinion two - The report wizard has a place and the real developers >> are better utilized working with the new report designer. >> >> So - My first question is very general. >> >> I will be using JDK 1.0.6 and NetBeans 5.5 to build the report.jar file. >> >> Would you think it reasonable to only be building this one file with >> these tools before offering any code changes, from a testing >> perspective? Or would you think it really needs to be a full build of >> the total package? Understanding that this places certain limits. > You can build the wizards project with netbeans, as I do it myself when > I want to debug it. I set up a new project where all *.java files are > included. > When you might want to write a new extra wizard for the new API which > will be introduced with the new report designer, you'll have to wait for > the upcoming snapshot. > Nice thing about Java and OOo is, that you can use netbeans to debug and > test it without the whole OOo stuff. The only thing you have to take > care for is to use the right JDK version. I use Source Level 1.4 > > I hope this info helps a little bit. >> Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## Observer OpenOffice.org: lang/DE ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
