On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Can you list some of the impacts a separate repository would impact > MingW if #3 was changed to enabled by default? I'm not really hung up on the whole repository thing. I just think it's extra administrative make-work, and not just for me, but for hard-working rel-eng people. Other large projects seem to get along without needing to be confined to an extra repository. > > This is a considerable restriction. A useful Windows cross- > > development environment must include packages like NSIS installer, GNU > > gettext and PortableXDR, none of which would make sense as standalone > > Fedora packages. > > > > rpm -q getext > gettext-0.17-4.fc9.i386 > :-) The library is a part of glibc. On Windows we compile the library separately because there ain't no glibc ... > I think that some discussion of this is warranted, though. It would be > desirable to have a program that can run on Linux and generate Windows > installers, for instance, but do we want to force our developers to do > the work of adapting a Windows program like NSIS installer to run on > Linux natively? I've already done this. Not checked into the repo yet, but I'll try to check it in later today. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
