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I had a short look at compiling their Desktop Editors. Not only do they not provide any build instructions, but a ticket for it has been unanswered for years. S

by girst 7y ago

I had a short look at compiling their Desktop Editors. Not only do they not provide any build instructions, but a ticket for it has been unanswered for years. Since they provide binary rpms but no srpms/spec files (which would not only document, but most likely implement a fully automatic build system), I can only conclude this is intentional. This is a big red flag for anything "open source" for me.

marwis 7y ago
You didn't look too well: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps/tree/master/win-linux/package/linux/rpm https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps/tree/master/win-l... Hint: github has a find file button
- dnadler 7y ago
  These don't look like instructions, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
  - rasengan 7y ago
    rpm
  - simcop2387 7y ago
    The spec files (also mentioned in the GP post) are what RPM uses to describe how to build the software and then package it into a .rpm file for later installation. This includes things like build and runtime dependencies, along with the actual steps to compile the software. They're not the most human friendly things to work with but they will certainly give all the information needed to build everything.
- girst 7y ago
  thanks. ~~i retract the part about srpms, then.~~ to my defense: the repository i looked at (and that is linked to in the documentation, afair) is ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors and there, issue #4 is still unresolved. EDIT: on second look, no, the point on srpms still stands. the %build section of the linked spec file is completely empty!