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

Hi Robert,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Robert Ryley <rryley1976@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is a very disappointing development.
>
> Perl is going to be MUCH harder to maintain than java.  I recall the
> joke "A programmer had a problem.  He decided to use perl.  The
> programmer then had two problems."
>
> I don't want to get too involved in the technical details here.  But
> perhaps you could tell me how solid this decision is, and who to
> discuss some of these issues with?

You should not take anything I say as being 100% reliable, as I am not
a coder. Here's one more resource that will certainly help you (again,
there is insufficient awareness of its existence):

http://api.libreoffice.org/

You can write to the devs mailing list, or chat with them on IRC. You
can notably look out for Michael Meeks, Thorsten Behrens or Norbert
Thiebaud to name just three guys off the top of my head.

> Thanks.

You're welcome. ;-)

-- 
David Nelson

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