On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:03:14PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > The java team wished to move forward and get packages beat into shape as > they find issues building the whole mess together before they > concentrate on the packaging aspects of it. That's a terrible excuse! With mingw we built the whole chain, nearly a hundred packages, outside the distribution before we submitted a single package to Fedora. In fact, we had a rolling build which built the whole chain against (at the time) Fedora 8, 9, 10 on i386 and x86_64. We even wrote a new tool (smock[1]) to automate the process. Rich. [1] http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-misc.cgi/fedora-mingw--devel/file/tip/smock -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
