Hi Stephan!
There are currently 27 different, per-platform C++ UNO bridge implementations at
bridges/source/cpp_uno/, some of which are presumably dead by now. And my recent
<https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/ef533553559fe09b4afab651fc692885d1acf4ed%5E!/>
"Rudimentary support for dynamic_cast on UNO proxy objects" (which had to touch
each of them individually) was the latest example how even presumably dead ones
have ongoing maintenance cost. Therefore, I would like to remove (on master,
towards LO 7.6) the ones that can clearly be identified as being dead.
Below, I sorted those 27 implementations into 5 categories: Ideally, each active
implementation would be built regularly by Jenkins; those 9 that are go into
category
1. Next, there are 2 additional implementations that I know are built for Fedora
releases; they go into category 2. Next, there are 2 additional implementations
that I presume are built for Debian releases (Rene, correct me if I'm wrong);
they go into category 3. And then there are 3 implementations that are
presumably
in active use elsewhere (Tor, wjh-la, Sakura286, correct me if I'm wrong); which
go into category 4. That leaves 11 implementations that are presumably dead, in
category 5.
(5) Presumably dead:
* gcc3_linux_alpha
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=alpha
* gcc3_linux_hppa
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=hppa
* gcc3_linux_ia64
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=ia64
* gcc3_linux_m68k
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=m68k
* gcc3_linux_powerpc
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=powerpc
* gcc3_linux_sparc64
=> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libreoffice&arch=sparc64
We're still maintaining these in Debian Ports. I have added the build logs for
the latest builds above.
New builds will be triggered soonish when I have worked through the queue of
package
dependencies that need to be fixed.
* gcc3_solaris_intel
* gcc3_solaris_sparc
Oracle is still maintaining Solaris until at least 2035 and OpenIndiana is
still maintained, too.
According to this article, LibreOffice 7.2.7 was shipped with OpenIndiana
2022.10:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/07/new_version_of_openindiana/
So, I'm not sure dropping Solaris support is a good idea either.
* gcc3_linux_sparc
32-bit SPARC is still supported by Gentoo, see:
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
Let me know if I can be of any help.
PS: I'm subscribed to this list, but I don't receive any mail.
Thanks,
Adrian
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