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

On 09/11/17 09:04, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I'd forgotten the original would have been German (and 
StarOffice was actually my first foray into a 'proper' WP -- iirc Sun 
were giving it away at the time.)

Probably time this thread died off, the 'source' issue being resolved 
and purely down to my failure.

I've started another thread on the particular video issue I'm concerned 
with. If anyone can shed light there to help getting it resolved, I 
think not a few users would be grateful!

Thanks again to all who've replied here.



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Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England
"The only way is Brexit" -- anon.

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