William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
At 04:35 PM 5/11/2005, Branko ÃÅibej wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
If the open source community tends to push back on Microsoft's
newest compilers, it's simply because their forced treadmill is
the anathema of inclusiveness.
That's what's happening right now with Subversion. The Python 2.4 distro is built with VS.NET (2003, I think). HTTPD is built with MSVC 6. Subversion tries to link with both. So right now, we're stuck with either providing only Python 2.3 bindings, or not being able to use an HTTPD from the apache.org installer...
Yes - I see Python 2.3 / Mod Perl 5.8 / Apache 2.0 / APR 0.9 / etc
all in the same 'generation' of code.
Do you want the ASF to be a leader of this 'breakage' as the Python
project was? This is why the push back.
And I hope for Python 2.4 / Apache 2.2 / APR 2.0 / etc to all be of
the next 'generation', finally adopting msvcr70. Seem rational?
I can live with that.
-- Brane
