On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's no significant "useful-ness bar" to reach, other than a package > probably needs to useful or interesting enough to catch someone's attention > to complete a package review. I believe Axel's question has a more subtle edge and would like to think he chose the word "promote" deliberately in his opening sentence. We "allow" pretty much anything appropriately licensed and legal to distribute into the distro as a stand alone library or application. I don't think that is the question of merit. The meater issue is this, is it worth changing how we do things, how we package other components, to make the minwg cross-compiler tool chain 'fit' into our project development environment so that Fedora can build and ship libraries/utilities/applications with this toolchain that are meant to be run on Windows. There's already technical discussion about how to modify some existing development packages to make it possible for this toolchain to exist. Allowing the toolchain in and of itself I don't think is the issue. But there are clearly intentions...motives....floating around to use that toolchain on a Fedora system to build and distribute libraries/utilities/applications..possibly as "official" Fedora bits..though the last hasn't been communicated yet. The plan could be to do all of the building strictly under the 'Red Hat' brand... with no direct benefit for Fedora. But plans change. I'm using my crystal ball a little bit here, and I believe that Axel is too. 'We' need to know under what situations 'we' are okay with this possible future. Is it okay if we structure our internal build and development processes to make it possible to build and distribute binaries in our infrastructure with this cross-compiler toolchain with the intention to use the resulting binaries on Windows. I know what I'm personally okay with "promoting" in that regard...migration tools. If we can build windows applications as part of this project that helps people get a Fedora or other linux install up and running, whether it be virtualized or not..then I'd probably support it as an official piece of Fedora tech. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
