Am 04.06.20 um 12:48 schrieb Carl Marcum:
Hi Peter,
On 5/29/20 7:41 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
In general:
I am not a big fan of the monolith structure AOO uses with storing
everything in one Repository.
I prefer to have small Repositories, with nice individual Release
cycles and modular main repo. They are easier to document, and
maintain, or to disembark and switch to other tools / libraries.
Smaller Repos are not as fearsome for newbies, in comparison to one
big repo. And it enforces a natural sustained architecture as is
described by experts like Robert C. Martin (Clean Architecture) or
Carola Lilienthal (German: Langlebige Software Architekturen;
translates sustained software architecture).
And my last general argument is, the smarter we set our build
environment to handle modularity, the easier it is for Distros to
adopt Apache OpenOffice. Distros are the best recruits for
developers. We see that in the support from FreeBSD, which made a lot
of Bugfixing. Also the OS/2 Development is a good support for our
cause. I am sure that there are more examples if we look back in
history, which I have not experienced.
This is of course a long term vision.
I agree that smaller projects work well for Git. Even down to one
artifact (think module) per sub-project.
I do that with my personal projects that have a handful of
sub-projects with Gradle builds but could that work with our build
systems?
I think we can work around the Issue by putting creating tar.gz files,
and include them into our boots trapper.
In the long run, I think, it would be super cool if our SCONs build
system has some package manager capabilities like Maven or portage.
If you never heard of portage, take a look at it. it is a super cool
package manager of Gentoo, that builds Application at install using
directly the upstream code.
Gentoo was awesoem (crazy) times. :)
At least it is my dream to have simple tools like those for building.
(And provide simple export tools for distros. If Gentoo ships code files
for AOO package instead in doing in by binary, I will party.)
All the best
Peter
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