On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 10/29/2015 9:12 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > >> On 10/29/2015 8:06 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> >>> Hello; >>> >>> First of all, a warm welcome to Patricia. Java developers are >>> particularly welcome at this stage! >>> >>> Just IMHO, the C++ side of AOO is either under-control or >>> too-ugly-to care-about, so we would do good focus more on the >>> Java parts, which are also somewhat ugly but still promising. >>> >>> Once you get the code to build, some things that could be looked into: >>> >>> - We are using some very old Java code for things that are in modern >>> JDKs: >>> Stax is one of them .. it looks very easy to get rid of. >>> Apache Commons is another one (LibreOffice recently replaced it), >>> Rhino could be replaced with project Nashorn. >>> >>> - Then there’s a lot of space for new Java development: >>> >>> We could make better use of Apache Lucene and tomcat. >>> We could probably find uses for Apache POI >>> We could probably use pdfbox to import pdf (just speculating, >>> we have some C code for that that still needs fixes) >>> >>> I am sure there is more to do, just hope that gives you some hints ;) >>> >> >> That gives me a starting place. I was trying to decide whether to begin >> by learning AOO building or to begin with C++ review and update. >> > > What is the best guide to building AOO on Windows 8? > > I started with > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows, > but hit some issues and want to make sure I'm using the right guide. > Hi Patricia I used this building guide on Windows: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Windows_7 If you have any problems building feel free to mail this list. Windows doesn't always build cleanly for me either. Oh and a big welcome to AOO. I like Apache River too btw :-). Damjan
