Off topic, but I thought this was interesting.  This is information
about compiling OpenOffice.  Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:

    http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

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	How much hard drive space needed for a full build of OpenOffice
	including source? 

	The current recommendation is 3GB.

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	How long does an OpenOffice build take? 
	
	Our current experience is that a full build of OpenOffice is
	approximately 20 hours on a single CPU Pentium III with 256MB of RAM
	running Linux. 

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Tue, 22 May 2001 10:05:24 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
OpenOffice compile
In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

> Off topic, but I thought this was interesting.  This is information
> about compiling OpenOffice.  Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:
> 
>     http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html

	IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only 
compiled on four or five different architectures isn't a policy that
anyone should emulate.

Tue, 22 May 2001 19:57:03 GMT
"Craig Orsinger" <orsingerc@epg.lewis.army_mil.invalid>
Re: OpenOffice compile
On Mar 22 May 2001 22:57, you wrote:
> In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"
>
> <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> > Off topic, but I thought this was interesting.  This is information
> > about compiling OpenOffice.  Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:
> >
> >     http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html
>
> 	IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only
> compiled on four or five different architectures isn't a policy that
> anyone should emulate.

I think that the problem with OpenOffice is that it comes from StarOffice. 
Last time I downloaded SO was 5.2 and had over 70MB of binary, compressed. 
Anyway, I don't think you can get it smaller, but, as the people of 
OpenOffice are doing, you can always split it up, modularize it, so it is 
easy to make changes.

P.D.: Linux kernel hasquite an amount of lines of code, but the developers 
have no problem finding bugs and all the stuff.

Saludos.... :-)

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Mon, 28 May 2001 11:07:10 +0300
=?iso-8859-1?q?Mart=EDn=20Marqu=E9s?= <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>
Re: Re: OpenOffice compile
"Craig Orsinger" <orsingerc@epg.lewis.army_mil.invalid> writes:

> In article <200105221405.f4ME5OG13140@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian"
> <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> > Off topic, but I thought this was interesting.  This is information
> > about compiling OpenOffice.  Hope PostgreSQL never gets to be this size:
> > 
> >     http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html
> 
> 	IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only 
> compiled on four or five different architectures

That many? OpenOffice hardly compiles anywhere, and it needs an
_exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception
handling. Very strange.

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Red Hat, Inc.

28 May 2001 10:08:06 -0400
teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
Re: Re: OpenOffice compile
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:08:06AM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsrï¿½d wrote:
> > 	IMHO, basing an open project on 7.6M lines of code that can only 
> > compiled on four or five different architectures
> 
> That many? OpenOffice hardly compiles anywhere, and it needs an
> _exact_ version of the compiler as it tries to do it's own exception
> handling. Very strange.

i beleive that Mozilla suffered from a similar fate when released by
Netscape.

while i don't know alot of people using Mozilla directly, i am aware of a
number of offshoot applications that are using the base source code.

i would agree that source-suites with 10 million lines of code are rather
un-wieldy.

however, i fully support the efforts of any group that tries to make it
a more sane thing.

OpenOffice/StarOffice/whatever would be a wonderful boon to the OSS movement.

it would be nice if the database engine behind it was a full fledge SQL
system like postgres.

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Mon, 28 May 2001 12:12:53 -0400
Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Re: Re: OpenOffice compile