[Libreoffice] defaulting to --without-java ... (?)

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:33 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> So,
>>
>>       As part of the quest to make LibreOffice easier to build; and in
>> parallel to annoy developers who are missing those java implemented
>> features into re-writing them into C++, I was wondering:
>>
>>       would anyone scream if we defaulted configure to --without-java ?
>
> That's surely a terrible idea. Now we default to building something
> which isn't the same as what will realistically be deployed, Base won't
> work out of box and all java extensions won't work.

I have no sympathy for Java but I agree with Caolan's argument.

Norbert

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