Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

Michael wrote:
> [reasons against autotools]
>
Granted. Though re-working OOo's make system in and of itself will
consume substantial resources, so I guess the question whether to
code another make system that's only used inside OOo, or whether to
use/extend something that's in wide-spread use out there deserves
some thoughts ...

> [cmake]
>
> but regarding IDEs, Bjoern just yesterday tried loading the sw module and
> the inc directory from the solver into some IDEs...
> iirc, visual studio parsed the headers for half an hour, and was then
> unusably slow; netbeans (with some gigabytes of heap) was barely usable.
>
Reportedly eclipse works rather well with a limited set of modules;
which will be more or less attained via the split build endeavour at
some point in time.
 
> does anybody really use an IDE for developing OOo?
> from what i know people use text editors, or they use an IDE basically
> like a text editor.
> 
I know a few cases where people have tried; ultimately though, if
one becomes a core dev, folks work on OOo the way you describe it
(which may be related to the fact that maintaining those project
files manually is a PITA). But may considerably lower the barrier of
entry for new devs.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

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