[Libreoffice] Newbee question

Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 22:32:44 PDT 2011


On 05/07/2011 21:13, Marcus Pedersén wrote:
> Hi all!
> I am interested in beeing a part of libreoffice.
> I have never been in an open source project before and is new to git.
> I do not want to commit myself properly until novemer as I am reading a
> network course at the university til then.
> But after that I will be able to put 5-10 hours a week into it.
> I have written code in C++ and I realy like that language.
> I am interested in coding and as I am from sweden I would be able to
> help out with translation into swedish.
> I was thinking that I should start out to clone the repro and start
> looking at code and become familiar with at least parts of it.
> so I did:
> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap myLocalDir
>
> I started to run through directories to find the code, but I can not see
> the structure.
> I do not have the same dir structure as it shows in:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice
>
> Where do I think wrong or what do I miss?
>
> I have searched the net but haven't found what I am missing.
> I am sorry if my questions are dumb and on a real low level, but I realy
> want to learn and help out as much as I can.
>
> Many thanks!
> Marcux
>
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Marcux

You will need to run the ./autogen.sh script to pull the rest of the 
repositories that make up libreoffice. In total there are 20. Currently 
though that is in the process of being changed so we dont have so many 
different ones.


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