On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:08:06AM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
> > compiled on four or five different architectures
>
> That many? OpenOffice hardly compiles anywhere, and it needs an
> _exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception
> handling. Very strange.
i beleive that Mozilla suffered from a similar fate when released by
Netscape.
while i don't know alot of people using Mozilla directly, i am aware of a
number of offshoot applications that are using the base source code.
i would agree that source-suites with 10 million lines of code are rather
un-wieldy.
however, i fully support the efforts of any group that tries to make it
a more sane thing.
OpenOffice/StarOffice/whatever would be a wonderful boon to the OSS movement.
it would be nice if the database engine behind it was a full fledge SQL
system like postgres.
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