On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:59 PM, AlexK <[email protected]> wrote:
> > subversion migration is an easy task... take a look at "git-svn" > it is not easy if you take complex branching into consideration, or the fact that the gerrit tool must be completely rewritten to accomodate svn. Oh, and you totally removed the distributed nature of the source repository (if you don't see why this is useful, you probably don't understand the issues faced by the project). All of this for a shiny GUI widget ? > Windows support not easy task as I understand, but it can be done. Can > be included binaries instead of full source code compilation and used > several other workarounds... I mention that experimental support of > Windows will be sufficient. What are you talking about?. You really require the ability to build full system images coherently and reliably. There is no place for "experimental support here". > In any case compilation of sources are > done on ARM processor that not native for windows and linux as well... You are confused, binaries are generated with host compiler/linker binaries that do generate ARM machine code, and these toolchain binaries need to be built specifically for Windows. (Fortunately, this is possible, since I've done just that to prepare the NDK). > > issue with "case sensitive" file system that was mention above can be > solved by small "move into folder" workarounds and changes in Make > files. > No, "move into folder" will not solve many of the case-sensivity problems which are numerous and subtle. Otherwise we would have fixed the build system a long time ago to make it work on normal OS X partitions. > > Please understand that you force Windows developer completely change > environment. Not many developers will be ready to do that. > I would correct you by saying "not many Windows developers", and this is not a problem in my opinion. If someone is too infatuated with a specific platform and refuses to learn a few new tricks, he probably isn't a good fit to work on an embedded system like Android anyway. Just install Linux on a virtual machine, and learn how to use it, it's not that hard, really... > On May 5, 6:00 pm, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subversion? Windows? *shutter* I hope these petitions don't succeed... > there > > are far more pressing things for Android devs to be focusing on. > > > > Having said that, it would be nice to see someone take on the project of > > setting up a good quality Windows toolchain, and maybe a guide for > > subversion users on how to use repo (perhaps the existing docs aren't > > comprehensive enough?) - contributing in this way would be far more > valuable > > Alex. > > > > On Apr 30, 2009 1:58 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I work with Android more then 1 year and found several issues that > > will be good to change. > > > > As one person I can not influence on Google Android Team that is why > > I'm asking everyone about taking part in my petitions. > > Android Community have successful petition before - result of which is > > presence on "developer phone" for Android Community. > > > > My reasons are simple: I trust in Android, I like it and I want to > > make it better. So please spent 2 minutes of your time and sign > > petitions if you found them close to your hart. > > > > ========= PETITION #1 ========= > > Change Android hosting from GIT to Subversion: > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-svn/ > > > > Reasons are: > > - Subversion is also Free and Open Source; > > - Subversion has much better and usable GUI for all OSs; > > - Subversion supports all features required for proper version > > controlling and collaboration of large teams; > > - Subversion has integration with all IDEs that can be used for > > development of Android applications/modules; > > - Subversion has many web UIs for code reviewing, tracking changes, > > bug tracking, etc. And they are more advanced comparing to GitWeb > > solution; > > > > ========= PETITION #2 ========= > > Please provide proper support for Windows OS: > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-win/ > > > > Reasons are: > > - Linux and MacOS only two major platforms and ignoring of the third > > major platform - Windows, is a big mistake on my mind; > > - Windows developers also wants to take great part in developing of > > Android internals; providing Android build support only for Linux and > > MacOS only makes "curve" of involvement into Android development very > > low; > > - Windows support will increase community size greatly; > > > > more details about supported platforms can be extracted fromhttp:// > source.android.com/download > > > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. 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