On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 15:54 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:21 AM, John Poelstra <poelstra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > == Mingw == > > > > I'm going to editorialize a little and reorder the bullets in doing so. > > > > * Board supports such an effort as long as it is self contained and > > > separated from the main package respository > > > > > > ** Leave technical details and implementation to FESCo > > > > > >From a broad Project policy perspective we think that cross-compiling > > > > is a new and different enough concept to separated out from the main > > repository offering as a new subproject endeavor. How exactly that is > > done, is something we want FESCo to take up. The Board is > > deliberately avoiding making specific implementation choices, but we > > did talk through enough of the possibilities so I was confident that > > this can be implemented without asking anyone to do the impossible > > with the available infrastructure. > I would assume the only thing being considered for inclusion here is the > compiler tool chain to enable people to cross build apps for windows, Agreed, + a couple of "free" applications that should be added to be used as testsuites. > I see it > no different to the current arm cross compiling toolkit. Agreed. > and of course if we > can only use binary blobs for part of it its not ever going to be acceptable > in fedora. Emphasize on _can_ (i.e. if feasible, do so, if not don't be forced to), because wrt. cross-toolchains * it doesn't always make sense to build everything from scratch/source * bootstrapping cross-toolchains may be difficult if not impossible without (at least temporarily) inserting binary blobs, due to them offen suffering from circular dependencies. > are you proposing we create software builds for windows? No. > > If FESCo members or mingw SIG members need clarification as to what is > > being asked of them, do not hesitate to respond. > Id like clarification on what you think you are doing. to me its seems all you > are doing is making noise. ?!? urgh, ... yes, there is a lot of noise on this topic. I feel a lot of people don't want to comprehend that cross-toolchains are ordinary (Fedora-)native applications and do not need any special treatment besides the spots where they collide with current policies. That said, the mingw-toolset is not any different from any arbitrary other cross-toolchain, except that its target platform is windows and not some other less popular OS. Ralf _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
