*/workben, what is that?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:10:55PM +0100, bjoern wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:50:57PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > I was checking something and I came around a vcl/workben with a
> > suspiciously looking makefile.mk (looks dmake to me), and after
> > searching I found a few more workbens but nothing indicating what is it.
> > 
> > Any idea what is that, seems bit rot to me, do I need to worry about
> > updating anything there?
> 
> These used to be "standalone apps/manual tests", just to play around with the
> code specific of the module without a complete LibreOffice. As they are not
> build in the default build, they were in bad shape even in old OOo times (and
> newer have been moved to gbuild -- as they werent building before mostly.).
> 
> So indeed, they likely should be killed for the most part as bitrot. BUT there
> is one exception I would make, which is the stuff you found first: vcl. We
> might at some point create new backends for vcl (or chisel out vcl, making it a
> wrapper around some other toolkit). For that, the examples in workben might be
> helpful to bootstrap and test iteratively, without having to support ALL of
> LibreOffice at once in the one huge step.

Good to know, I think I can just ignore it for now then.

Regards,
Khaled