Hi AOO is by far the biggest and most complex code I have ever hacked on, and I have many questions...
What IDE do you guys use to develop AOO? Eclipse CDT runs out of memory indexing the code :-(. Many comments are in German. Are translations to English welcome or should we leave them as is? Debugging is such a pain. Why do binaries get stripped when the tar.gz is built even though debugging has been enabled (build debug=true dbglevel=2 --all)? The layout of the source code tree is incredibly complex, with eg. confusing duplication of CSV parsing between binfilter/ and sc/. Is there somewhere I should document the structure of various modules? http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Source_code_directories seems like a good place to start but I would add a lot more detail. Searching with grep takes forever. I've tried indexing the source tree with Lucene, but it doesn't find everything. Is there a better tool? Thank you Damjan
