+1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:03 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package [ ... ] > > AOO build on Windows currently requires the use of Cygwin which has a > full range of archive utilities. The downside is that it limits your > choice of developers to people who are comfortable in a UNIX-like shell > environment.
[orcmid] And because the Windows native development tools (as of VS 2008) are used from within that environment, it gets very weird and is also rather brittle. > > My ideal tool chain would be: > > Open and extract-all on a zip file OR do an SVN checkout. > > Open an appropriate IDE and load the project description file. > > Build. > > Run. [orcmid] I think that is very important to strive for if we are to attract and sustain development for the platform which is overwhelmingly (87%) used by our end-users based on the only measures we have. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
