On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:53 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I'm not sure I'm okay with rebuilding our entire collection of > libraries as Windows DLLs and packaging them as part of our > distribution, taking up project repository and mirror space. Aside from the secondary arch precedent, there are the precedents of EPEL and OLPC. There is a strong relationship between Fedora and RHEL, but packages from one don't necessarily run on the other. The difference in these cases is that we can emulate/virtualize environments from within Fedora to run e.g. RHEL and OLPC (Sugar), all from 100% FLOSS. The same is may not be true of DLLs and EXEs from MinGW. Maybe some runs under WINE, or Cygwin. But all? Seems unlikely. I am only pointing out the precedents and differences in this case, I've no idea yet if we are in danger of slipping down a slope. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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