Hi,
On 12.01.2023 10:53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Stephan!
On 1/12/23 10:48, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
On 10/01/2023 19:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Stephan!
There are currently 27 different, per-platform C++ UNO bridge
implementations at
bridges/source/cpp_uno/, some of which are presumably dead by now.
And my recent
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.libreoffice.org/core/*/ef533553559fe09b4afab651fc692885d1acf4ed*5E!/__;KyU!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KXU_z2MpxVAcDc3mFSv6lVajUOw57x8kXdOz-kYNh_H6qrbrbJ_-oDGDaMyqhLSViKqpztTIkBHLPjYe5On88XuUN63wkA$ >
"Rudimentary support for dynamic_cast on UNO proxy objects" (which
had to touch
each of them individually) was the latest example how even
presumably dead ones
have ongoing maintenance cost. Therefore, I would like to remove (on
master,
towards LO 7.6) the ones that can clearly be identified as being dead.
Below, I sorted those 27 implementations into 5 categories: Ideally,
each active
implementation would be built regularly by Jenkins; those 9 that are
go into category
1. Next, there are 2 additional implementations that I know are
built for Fedora
releases; they go into category 2. Next, there are 2 additional
implementations
that I presume are built for Debian releases (Rene, correct me if
I'm wrong);
they go into category 3. And then there are 3 implementations that
are presumably
in active use elsewhere (Tor, wjh-la, Sakura286, correct me if I'm
wrong); which
go into category 4. That leaves 11 implementations that are
presumably dead, in
category 5.
(5) Presumably dead:
[...]
* gcc3_solaris_intel
* gcc3_solaris_sparc
Oracle is still maintaining Solaris until at least 2035 and
OpenIndiana is still maintained, too.
According to this article, LibreOffice 7.2.7 was shipped with
OpenIndiana 2022.10:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/07/new_version_of_openindiana/__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KXU_z2MpxVAcDc3mFSv6lVajUOw57x8kXdOz-kYNh_H6qrbrbJ_-oDGDaMyqhLSViKqpztTIkBHLPjYe5On88Xvkj9VyDQ$
So, I'm not sure dropping Solaris support is a good idea either.
Thanks for that link.
From
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KXU_z2MpxVAcDc3mFSv6lVajUOw57x8kXdOz-kYNh_H6qrbrbJ_-oDGDaMyqhLSViKqpztTIkBHLPjYe5On88XtEJWU1qA$ > it looks like at least OpenIndiana only supports x86-64, so neither gcc3_solar_intel (32-bit x86) nor gcc3_solaris_sparc (32-bit SPARC) should be relevant for it. I'm adding Andreas Wacknitz (who's the author of recent OpenIndiana announcements like <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.openindiana.org/2022/12/04/openindiana-hipster-2022-10-is-here/__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KXU_z2MpxVAcDc3mFSv6lVajUOw57x8kXdOz-kYNh_H6qrbrbJ_-oDGDaMyqhLSViKqpztTIkBHLPjYe5On88XviRRVmvA$ >) in CC, maybe he can shed some light on this. (Andreas, my full original email starting this thread is at <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-January/089808.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!KXU_z2MpxVAcDc3mFSv6lVajUOw57x8kXdOz-kYNh_H6qrbrbJ_-oDGDaMyqhLSViKqpztTIkBHLPjYe5On88XvjV14vXA$ > "Plan to remove dead C++ UNO bridge implementations (bridges/source/cpp_uno/*)").
I don't know if there are any other Solaris-based offerings for which
current LO master gcc3_solaris_intel and/or gcc3_solar_sparc would
still be relevant. If somebody knows of any, please report back here.
I'm adding two of the Solaris maintainers at Oracle that I know to ask
them whether
the SPARC port for LibreOffice is still relevant for them.
We don't build or bundle LibreOffice with Solaris.
I know that in past people tried to build it:
https://sfe.opencsw.org/libreoffice-on-solaris11
Generally if it works on OpenIndiana it's possible that someone tries to
build it on Solaris too.
I expect that only 64bits and GCC build might be relevant (probably
rather on Intel than on SPARC).
Thanks,
Petr
