archive / install slowness ...

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi David,

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:26:00PM +0100, David Ostrovsky wrote:
> Sure? I do want to see what those builds do ... because if they are doing boolshit,
> let's change that ;-)

No, I dont want to change it as it would mean becoming the maintainer for the
~90 external projects we have.

> i wonder why you didn't mention another way to address it: kill scp2 and installer all together,
> and do the installation during the build process (and don't do zip/unzip nonsense)
> I guess this POC is a first step in this direction:
> 
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/2298/ :
> proof of concept: kill scp2 and solenv/bin/modules (WiP)

But for these fringe operating systems like OSX and Windows you still need
solenv/installer for msi creation etc.

Best,

Bjoern