Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

Hi Robert,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Robert Ryley <rryley1976@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

This is precisely information that is not documented at the moment,
and - indeed - some aspects are still probably in evolution. Only the
project's leading devs could really give you a satisfactory answer.

But, certainly, the lack of developer documentation is something that
is a real brake to people wanting to ease themselves into a position
of being able to hack code for the project. AFAIK, a lot of the Java
is being replaced with Perl.

You have 2 resources that can help you familiarize yourself a little
with the code base:

http://docs.libreoffice.org/

This is some partial API documentation.

And you've got:

http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/

Powered by OpenGrok - "a wicked fast source browser!"

This is a tool to search in the LibreOffice GIT repositories.

For more info on getting into development, you can visit:

http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/

HTH at least a bit. :-)

-- 
David Nelson

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