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What kind of hardware does a developer need to work on the OS X OpenOffice.org port?

April 26, 2017Developer hardware port

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What kind of hardware does a developer need to work on the OS X OpenOffice.org port?

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The best you can get your hands on. OpenOffice.org is a large and complex project. To get reasonable performance while building and debugging, developers should probably have a G4-based Macintosh running Mac OS X v10.1 or higher. It is recommended that the machine have at least 300 MB of RAM and 3GB of free hard disk space to perform a build. Developers can probably work on the port with older hardware but it will require quite a bit of patience. Still, a full compile of the source code takes about 12 – 16 hours on fast machines.