<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for your thoughts Norbert.<br><div><div>On 2011-05-09, at 7:46 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Peter Teeson <<a href="mailto:peter.teeson@bell.net">peter.teeson@bell.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Christian:<br></blockquote>[...]<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Precisely. So maybe the time is now to start up an Xcode IDE version.<br></blockquote><br>That is very unlikely. when we move to 10.6 that will still be based<br>on out current fairly portable build-system.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">If there is support for that I would consider helping.<br></blockquote><br>Well, that's a chicken and egg problem. If you want support for that<br>you're gonna have to make it happen...<br>If you come up with a way to support using XCode IDE in a<br>non-intrusive way (that is without breaking the ability of the current<br>build-system to works and without forcing people to use a particular<br>GUI -- as most dev around happily use emacs or vi and would probably<br>not want to use XCode for editing),<br>then by all means submit patches... be warned that it is not going to<br>be that easy as the build of the product is fairly complex and the<br>code base is huge ( see<br><a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest">https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest</a> some 8 millions<br>lines of C++ )<br><br>Norbert<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>If my understanding is correct there ought not to be any noticable difference except for Mac users. As for forcing people to use it that's not my philosophy. The face is that I am forced to use the present mechanism. </div><div><br></div><div>One might (repeat might) be able to graft a nice GUI front end (a.k.a Xcode) and invoke the existing build mechanism. I don't see why patches would be involved but then my knowledge of the build mechanism is extremely limited.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought to try by building just the startup screen module.</div><div>However I need to find out where things are . i.e. the end of the wool ball.</div><div>Care to point me in the right direction? Please someone?</div><div><br></div><div>There are several unix things that have been ported to Mac and Apple even </div><div>gives info on how to approach it.</div><div><br></div><div>respect...</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>