On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/5/2010 2:41 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >> What kind of build options are we talking about? >> For some projects this might be a problem, but I think there are >> enough projects for which this will not be a problem. > > Optimization flags, availability of .pdb debugging symbols (e.g. equivalent of > foo-debug linux/bsd distro package variants), etc.
I'm not sure I understand the problem. Different projects might use different optimizations, so what? > For the vast majority of projects, this will be a problem, and you have to > look > no further than the patch sets of any distro to be convinced. > Which means, simply, that projects friendly to recommendations are warmly > received > as the exceptions, while CoApp needs to streamline itself to handling the vast > majority of non-responsive projects, or who are otherwise of other minds on > the > topic of building on win32. > > CoApp seeks to be one very specific way to do it. If it happens to work for > the > upstream project, wonderful :) If not, it's open source, and when it's broke > we > get to glue both pieces together. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
