On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 09:27 +0000, Ian wrote: > Maybe we should convert the whole thing to Java :-)
Lol ;-) it seems the number of platforms with a compliant JVM is shrinking as we watch, making a bet on that technology in the current world seems crazy. > At least then it would run on any platform with a JVM eg cell phone Sure any cell-phone with a vast amount of RAM, and a CPU twice as fast as those we have currently in desktops might give reasonable performance. I've seen OO.o running quite nicely on small ARM devices as native code; that would be my approach to mobile. And Sebastian is right - it would be a great goal to be able to build, and (for the most part) run without requiring Java - which is a distribution, and performance nightmare. While, of course, retaining the ability to write and distribute extensions in Java (where its cross-platform-ness makes this rather nice). But the real question is: who is eager to hack on --disable-java for the build ? :-) it should just be a matter of typing, and would help us attract new developers that don't have that fragile pre-requisite around. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***