Contributed by mitja on from the we-ran-out-of-office-jokes dept.
In the shadow of recent good news about the state of OpenOffice.org suite on OpenBSD, Robert Nagy (robert@) has quietly updated want.html with a request for a new build box for this port:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: www Changes by: robert@cvs.openbsd.org 2009/02/20 15:45:54 Modified files: . : want.html Log message: A U1 high server with a dual or quad Intel CPU for OpenOffice.Org builds is needed in Budapest, Hungary. (Unfortunately that's the only size I can host for free.) I can also receive donations so I can buy such a machine. Thanks
As you all know, building editors/openoffice3 involves plenty of resources and time. Robert told us that the current build cycle takes over 12 hours which makes the porting process tedious; he also can't afford to keep that build machine running any longer. On a modern quad core CPU machine the build time will be less than half of that, and he can host a 1U rack server for free, thus killing two birds at the same time.
Robert is asking for paypal donations to robert@openbsd.org, so he can purchase such a machine. Considering the money saved in commercial licences because of this port and Robert's work, we hope that the goal can be reached with the help of the community.
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By Anonymous Coward (2a01:348:108:155:216:41ff:fe53:6a45) on
many of the really long really slow bits in OOO are built with rsc, which ccache doesn't help.
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By tedu (udet) on
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> many of the really long really slow bits in OOO are built with rsc, which ccache doesn't help.
ok, now i have a perverse need to know, what is rsc? the best i could find is the source, which has the fugliest code style ever seen, inconsistent (possibly incorrect) indentation, and wait for it.... semicolons after braces!
http://gsl.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/gsl/rsc/source/rsc/rsc.cxx?rev=1.29
obviously it's a parser/compiler of some sort, but wtf?
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By sthen (2a01:348:108:155:216:41ff:fe53:6a45) on
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> > many of the really long really slow bits in OOO are built with rsc, which ccache doesn't help.
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> ok, now i have a perverse need to know, what is rsc? the best i could find is the source, which has the fugliest code style ever seen, inconsistent (possibly incorrect) indentation, and wait for it.... semicolons after braces!
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> http://gsl.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/gsl/rsc/source/rsc/rsc.cxx?rev=1.29
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> obviously it's a parser/compiler of some sort, but wtf?
there's some sort of description at http://gsl.openoffice.org/:
- The basic layout of dialogs and the strings that are subject of translation/localization are stored in resource files. The resource compiler creates an efficient binary representation out of a human readable text format.
from reading this, i don't think you'd possibly imagine it's going to take over an hour on a fast machine.
By Matthias Kilian (91.3.37.138) on
I've seen this bullshit in some other project (crm114). They refused the patches I sent them, because "semicolons after braces are good". I abandoned my work on a crm114 port the very same day ;-)