Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] ant/dmake to gbuild conversions

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 04:28 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > Well, Peter asked the question on the list before starting to work on
> > it and and the consensus was that for these limited cases the benefit
> > outweighed the cost.
>
>       Indeed - the outcome of the:
>
>       'use of apache ant in libreoffice'
>
>       thread from Wed, seemed (to me) to be that there is an advantage to
> being able to properly parallelize and gnumake-ify the java compiles,
> and if there are (increasingly) few java pieces and we can drop ant in
> some star-trek future as a build dep, that is surely no bad thing.
>
>       Clearly there is then no prohibition on using ant, or external / java
> packages that require it - but Peter's patches seem to convert two of
> the five modules using ant to (cleaner) gnu make files in the process
> and leave only: beanshell scripting and xmerge requiring ant.
>
>       Seems like progress to me, I'd love to see that included.

I'm going to work on converting the other ant modules soon. 
I'll commit these 2 patches after I finish testing them a bit more.

Peter