Le 09/11/2017 à 16:30, jonathon a écrit : Any pointers on how to minimise the pain of reading the code?
Aspirin ;-) Errm, seriously, not really, other than perhaps just focussing on one area of the code. I tend to mostly focus on the database stuff, and have recently started looking at memory leaks with the aid of Instruments.app on MacOS, which does facilitate somewhat the fingerpointing and blaming game for the bits of code it considers "wrong". Not that it always gets it right mind. With the database code, I started occasionally perusing the driver classes when I was still using OpenOffice.org and trying to understand how they were constructed and how they were intended to function. I held the vain hope of developing my own driver class at the time (but for which db backend I fail to recall now), realising very quickly that it was out of my league, so I just kept opening up the cxx files and scrolling through them, and then forgetting most of what I'd found interesting as soon as I'd closed it. At the time, I was also subscribed to the dba mailing list for OpenOffice.org where the devs from Sun frequently intervened to explain this or that function, and parts of the API. Unfortunately, the dba code side of things is heavily undersubscribed in the behemoth project that is LibreOffice today in terms of human investment, there is but one dba code caretaker who has a dayjob other than helping out with LO, and a few other occasional committers, mostly people working for Linux distros to fix bugs, or GSOC-ing, thereby making it difficult to have increasing in-depth knowledge and insights. That knowledge kind of tends to be assumed. I would probably need several lifetimes to become proficient enough in programming in C++ to be able to even dream of understanding each time what is going on. I'd say, even with the amateur knowledge I have currently, it has taken me more than 10 years of repeated blank staring at lines of code to even start to comprehend, sadly... Anyway, we are seriously digressing from the initial topic, so I'll stop here... Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
