I would most certainly think so....gets update
everytime something
changes
automatically? That would be grand :-).
Stephane Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Belxjander Serechai" <belxjander_serechai(a)yahoo.co.nz>
To: "Effort to port
OpenOffice.org to AmigaOS4"
<openoffice-os4(a)samfundet.no>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [OO.org-OS4] That idea I had.
Would an automated "dependency tree" based from a Source based
Linux installation be of any use in doing any of this ?
Curious,
Belxjander
On Tue, 2005-26-07 at 19:16 +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> It's time to get started on some more work. I mentioned yesterday
that I
> had an idea for something that might bring in
a couple of more
> programmers. Apoligies in advance for stepping on anyones toes here,
but
> I think we've been a bit too silent
lately. And that isn't good in
the
> long run...
>
> The idea is this:
> Construct a proper dependency graph for
OO.org, and then use this to
> construct an "enabling end-products" graph. I'm not sure what to call
> it, but I basically mean taking the dependecies we have in
OO.org,
and
> figuring out what other useful and/or cool
pieces of software will be
> that much closer to a port if/when each dependency is taken care of.
> That way both we and people who come across some kind of source they
> want to port will know where to start.
>
> I'm thinking of doing it as a graphical diagram as well as a
relational
> database (because I do both of those things a
lot already). That way
you
> could search in the database for a piece of
software to see what
> dependencies there are and if anyone is working on them, or search
for a
> dependency and see how useful it is.
>
> Does it sound useful? I think it would make it a lot easier for
people
> like Captain Moo Moo and Joppe, who were both
looking for projects to
> feed to students. Just putting all of them into the
OO.org pool would
be
> too much noise and not enough gain, but
splitting them into teams to
> tackle smaller (but still important) parts of the project or even
build
> other projects on top of our dependencies to
extend the software base
of
> the Amiga would be great.
>
> So we need to concentrate more on those dependencies. I know Henning
has
> spent a shitload of time on this already, I
would actually like to
know
> at this point who _is a programmer_ and _has
some time this coming
> weekend_ (and if yes on both points, _when_). Yes, an IRC schedule.
We
> won't be needing non-programmers, but an
hour or two of nitty gritty
> code reviews and notes taken which can be built into a database would
be
> a good place to start if we want to attract
some more attention. For
> one, it would serve as a kind of "progress report" to the outside
world.
>
> I'll be sketching down the outline of a database tomorrow, if any
> programmers has some free time between friday evening and monday
> morning, european time, send me a PRIVATE EMAIL with the fixed
> world-clock time (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html )
>
> like this:
> start: url-specifying-start-of-period
> stop: url-specifying-end-of-period
>
> repeat for each period
>
> If you have better ideas for scheduling practices, please make note
of
> them IN ADDITION to following my wish. At
least this once, we'll see
if
> we use your ideas in the future, ok? :-)
>
> And I repeat, we really only need people who can go over code/search
> elsewhere to look for obvious dependencies. I'm sure we won't find
all
> dependecies (and their order/structure, which
is just as important)
just
> yet, but maybe we can start filling in
something.
>
> It would be awesome if someone could find a member of an existing
oo.org
> porting project team and get some input
there. That would actually
help
> a lot.
>
> Of course, if people choose to ignore my idea then that is perfectly
> acceptable, but I hope I'll then at least get a response indicating
that
> the email has been read but the idea
rejected. Even though it ended
up
> as a rather long email in the end...
>
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