Hi Jürgen, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > the so called 3layer office is not really useful anymore (it was never) > and makes more problems than it helps. > > I thought that AOO 4.0 would be the best time to start at least with the > necessary rework. The main idea is to use a new simplified directory > layout and tweak the necessary config file (*rc, *.ini), rpath or > similar linker flags where necessary etc. Eliminate the URE completely > because we don't really want support it as a standalone product. > > I did some initial work so far and I am now able to build an office for > Windows, MacOS and Linux with a new simplified directory layout. > > Windows and MacOS have already one main directory whereas on Linux we > have "openoffice" (basis layer + URE) and "openoffice4" (brand layer). > > I removed all this base-link, ure-link, URE, urelib stuff and > reorganized the directories. > > Example layout on Linux: > openoffice4 > openoffice4/help > openoffice4/presets > openoffice4/program -> contains basis-link/program + URE/bin + URE/lib > openoffice4/program/misc -> former URE/share/misc -> will be removed > openoffice4/README > openoffice4/README.html > openoffice4/readmes > openoffice4/share > > In general the layout becomes more equal on all platforms. > > The good news is that the office work on all 3 platforms, I am able to > select Java, extensions seems to work as well. Python is not yet tested, > language packs are not yet tested and built but in general I am thinking > it will be no problem. > > Advantage of this move would be a simplified structure, long term a > simplified configuration when the *rc/*.ini files are consolidated. > Easier deployment on Linux, no conflicts with an URE from LO or the > distro at all. > > My idea is to continue this basic work, do further cleanup in the office > as well as the build system, do further testing including the SDK... > Still some work to do but from my point of view a useful move forward to > get rid of this complex and unnecessary 3layer stuff. > > What do you think? > > On demand I can provide test builds if there are people interested to > help with testing.
is the code available on a branch? If so I can make some time to help check the build on Fedora and do some smoke testing. Or if you can get the code to me in some other way let me know. I have limited time but happy to try these things if that helps. > > Juergen > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > -- Cheers, Ian C --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
