Has anybody evaluated maybe using Apache Ant as the build tool? It's platform independent and easy to extend and script.
- - - - - - - - - Áframsendur póstur - - - - - - - - - - > From: Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 23:20:43 +0200 > Subject: New build system > Hi, > > as already discussed here, a team ( > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort) is > currently evaluating how we can > improve our build system. Björn Michaelsen presented a prototype for a new > build system based on GNU Make and we also have been pointed to > CMake by Jussi Pakkanen who already has investigated CMake as a > potential alternative for our build system. Björn continued to work on > his prototype and we also gathered some experience with CMake. My > special thanks goes to Martin Hollmichel, who wrote a considerable amount > of CMake make files (CMakelists.txt files) so that we could build a bunch of > OOo modules on Linux and Windows and see how it works and how good it works > for us.
