[libreoffice-users] Re: resolved (Re: getting LO source)

Le 08/11/2017 à 10:52, Mike Scott a écrit :

Hi Mike,

> Having established it would build and run (with the same video problem,
> incidentally), I finally looked at the sources. Now I begin to see why
> changes take so long.... not a comment in sight for one thing, and a
> spider's web of complexity. Sheesh! Nightmarish.

The lack of significant comments stems from the original source code of
OpenOffice.org when it was released, which itself came from StarOffice
(after Sun bought the code). Most of the existing comments at the time
were also in German, and particularly concise or absconse.

Unfortunately, at least for the occasional person wanting to dive into
the code, heavy commenting does not seem to be widely adopted amongst
the currently active open source developers contributing to the project.
One might also bear in mind that the LibreOffice code base is huge -
certainly larger in lines of code than any other current open source
project.

As a non-developer trying to read the code for bug hunting, it has given
me migraines on many an occasion.


Alex


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