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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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