OpenOffice compile

In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

Off topic, but I thought this was interesting. This is information
about compiling OpenOffice. Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
compiled on four or five different architectures isn't a policy that
anyone should emulate.

On Mar 22 May 2001 22:57, you wrote:

In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"

<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

Off topic, but I thought this was interesting. This is information
about compiling OpenOffice. Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
compiled on four or five different architectures isn't a policy that
anyone should emulate.

I think that the problem with OpenOffice is that it comes from StarOffice.
Last time I downloaded SO was 5.2 and had over 70MB of binary, compressed.
Anyway, I don't think you can get it smaller, but, as the people of
OpenOffice are doing, you can always split it up, modularize it, so it is
easy to make changes.

P.D.: Linux kernel hasquite an amount of lines of code, but the developers
have no problem finding bugs and all the stuff.

Saludos.... :-)

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"Craig Orsinger" <orsingerc@epg.lewis.army_mil.invalid> writes:

In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

Off topic, but I thought this was interesting. This is information
about compiling OpenOffice. Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
compiled on four or five different architectures

That many? OpenOffice hardly compiles anywhere, and it needs an
_exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception
handling. Very strange.

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On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:08:06AM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsr�d wrote:

IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
compiled on four or five different architectures

That many? OpenOffice hardly compiles anywhere, and it needs an
_exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception
handling. Very strange.

i beleive that Mozilla suffered from a similar fate when released by
Netscape.

while i don't know alot of people using Mozilla directly, i am aware of a
number of offshoot applications that are using the base source code.

i would agree that source-suites with 10 million lines of code are rather
un-wieldy.

however, i fully support the efforts of any group that tries to make it
a more sane thing.

OpenOffice/StarOffice/whatever would be a wonderful boon to the OSS movement.

it would be nice if the database engine behind it was a full fledge SQL
system like postgres.

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