On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:10:55PM +0100, bjoern wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:50:57PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a > > suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after > > searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it. > > > > Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about > > updating anything there? > > These used to be "standalone apps/manual tests", just to play around with the > code specific of the module without a complete LibreOffice. As they are not > build in the default build, they were in bad shape even in old OOo times (and > newer have been moved to gbuild -- as they werent building before mostly.). > > So indeed, they likely should be killed for the most part as bitrot. BUT there > is one exception I would make, which is the stuff you found first: vcl. We > might at some point create new backends for vcl (or chisel out vcl, making it > a > wrapper around some other toolkit). For that, the examples in workben might be > helpful to bootstrap and test iteratively, without having to support ALL of > LibreOffice at once in the one huge step.
Good to know, I think I can just ignore it for now then. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
