Hello Alexander, On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 14/09/11 22:40, Robert Ryley a écrit : > > Hi Robert, > >> If there is a move away from java, that is going to make a significant >> portion of that documentation obsolete. Is there anything >> specifically related to the move away from java documented anywhere? >> Any idea what the API is going to be to replace it? >> > > AFAIK support for Java is not being dropped, i.e. the API and UNO will > still support Java implementations of functionality, rather the hooks > which provide currently provide certain functionality, e.g. the Wizards, > are being converted to other coding languages, such as Python. The aim > is reduce dependency on Java implementations where possible, replacing > them with other coding alternatives.
This is what one of the developers told me on IRC yesterday, explaining that there was a mix of java and c++ in the base code, making for some "interesting" maintainence isues. Considering how the languages are implemented differently (ie. one compiles to native machine code, the other compiles to bytecode), I can imagine that it must be annoying trying to figure out what is going on when the code base is in the millions of lines. > There has been a GSOC project this year to achieve that very goal, i.e. > the migration of at least some of the assistants from a Java based > implementation to a Python based implementation. These are currently in > the 3.5 development branch of the code. Interesting. This makes more sense. > I'm not actually sure if this is documented anywhere, but most likely > this will have been decided in the Engineering Steering Committee > meetings. The reports of these are posted on the wiki. Do you have a link to that? There is lots of developer docs strewn around the 'net. Robert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
