Hi Bjoern, On 08/12/16 18:40, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: >> * download 'something' > (actually, Visual Studio can directly clone git repos, so > manual downloads shouldnt be needed)
Sure - question is if we want to check all the un-buildable binaries into a git repository; but we can do of course if it saves having a shell to download things. >> * click the green triangle to debug ;-) > > Certainly works for kdevelop and used to work for MSVS. Great - so we're nearly there. >> Where of course that 'something' would need to be constructed by some >> tinderbox / slave, and (ideally) contain everything not easily buildable >> with the IDE already pre-built =) > > Ok, who is going to finally kill scp2, the horribly icon-theme scriping, UNO > registry generation plumbing etc. for good? (With kill=port to plain C++ > tooling). For me at least, none of that is relevant. We can pre-generate all of that and include it pre-built inside the 'something' that is downloaded. >> Personally I'd see this as an entry mode: once people have the >> satisfaction of seeing their work 'working' they can graduate to >> installing cygwin, and <insert other pain points>. Clearly there would >> be nothing authoritative about it etc. > > That would assume to use a pregenerated autoconf output then (as autoconf need > essentially all of POSIX and then some). Possibly -- but not without its own > pain points (ask any Sun engineer, this is was how StarOffice builds were > like). Sure there are pain-points; and it is a rather artificial setup that is proposed - a newbie / starting developer setup. Having said that - you can get a -very- long way with just editing C++ files in a tree with pre-build python, ICU, etc. etc. >> AFAICS - there -should- also be no need for cygwin, LODE, or anything >> else in this world ;-) just a single download. > > Well, we sneakily use various bits of sed/gawk/gperf/perl/python/zip/tar/... > in > various corners of the build. Sure - and this then becomes an incremental task ;-) -iff- doing this generates interest from lots of new developers, which it might, then I suspect we get a set of manpower with motivation to make more and more of the code easily accessible on Windows ;-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice