On 02/03/2010 04:25 PM, Michael Goldish wrote:
----- "Uri Lublin"<uril@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/02/2010 01:48 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
Hi folks:
We're on an effort of streamlining the KVM test experience, by
choosing
sane defaults and helper scripts that can overcome the initial
barrier
with getting the KVM test running. On one of the conversations I've
had
today, we came up with the idea of shipping the compiled windows
programs rss.exe and finish.exe, needed for windows hosts testing.
Even though rss.exe and finish.exe can be compiled in a fairly
straightforward way using the awesome cross compiling environment
with
mingw, there are some obvious limitations to it:
1) The cross compiling environment is only available for fedora>=
11.
No other distros I know have it.
2) Sometimes it might take time for the user to realize he/she has
to
compile the source code under unattended/ folder, and how to do it.
That person would take a couple of failed attempts scratching
his/her
head thinking "what the heck is this deps/finish.exe they're
talking
about?". Surely documentation can help, and I am looking at making
the
documentation on how to do it more easily discoverable.
That said, shipping the binaries would make the life of those
people
easier, and anyway the binaries work pretty well across all versions
of
windows from winxp to win7, they are self contained, with no
external
dependencies (they all use the standard win32 API).
3) That said we also need a script that can build the entire
winutils.iso without making the user to spend way too much time
figuring
out how to do it. I want to work on such a script on the next days.
So, what are your opinions? Should we ship the binaries or pursue a
script that can build those for the user as soon as the (yet to be
integrated) get_started.py script runs? Remember that the later
might
mean users of RHEL<= 5.X and debian like will be left out in the
cold.
4) Another option is to make winutils.iso available (somewhere on the
web), and
download it in get_started.py (similar to other iso images used by kvm
test).
But isn't there a legal problem with that?
winutils.iso contains VLC media player (for the timedrift test).
If there's no legal problem, this sounds like the best option to me.
You may be right (although I think VLC is GPL).
I meant only for rss.exe and finish.exe.
Other components such as VLC media player can be downloaded separately.
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