On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 00:22 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 04:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > I am not sure Fedora should support toolchains endorsing proprietary > > OSes (Though MinGW is free, the OS underneath is not). I.e. from a > > Fedora focused POV all such a cross compiler does is "helping your > > enemy". > > That's a bit silly. Well, I don't think so. > We already have Wine in extras. You can compile and > test windows binaries without needing a proprietary OS. This is the opposite direction: _Running_ native Win-apps under Linux. Mingw's purpose is to enable to compile Unix SW to run it under Win, such that people can avoid using Unix/Linux and harvest Unix SW under Win. At least I am not interested in supporting this. > Its called interoperability. I call it playing nice to M$. At least I am not interested in supporting this. > The only reason to stifle interoperability > is to lock your customers in to an inferior product. (Well, that and > maybe legal issues such as patent bullshit...) Yes ... that would be yet another issue. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
