On 17/09/14 21:48, Anthonys Lists wrote: > On 17/09/2014 00:27, nicholas ferguson wrote: >> >> I tossed that investigation aside thinking that that route had been >> poured over by LibreOffice experts; and took another look.…. >> >> I didn’t understand why I had to clean up this mess, with an open >> source product that has been on the market, for years…. >> > Sorry, you know the Open Source warranty, don't you? "If it breaks, you > get to keep both pieces"? > > The reality is that the guy who originally set it up presumably lost > interest, and if no-one else has been using it, it bit-rotted. That's a > very common occurrence in ALL software, be it Open Source or commercial > - indeed, LibreOffice has just been through a massive clean up of > bit-rotted code which, iirc, deleted a *third* of the code base!!! > > It wouldn't surprise me if this feature dated from the proprietary Star > Office days, and obviously got missed in the clean-up. (Which would > explain why the original guy lost interest - he would have done it > because he was told to, not because he wanted to.)
while *in general* Wol gets it right, for the particular case of --enable-dbgutil, i'm doing such a build with MSVC 2012 about once a week and it's working fine for me. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
