Thanks a lot Everyone. I learned a lot with all your points of view.
I think a wiki would be a really good thing for uefi community.
Thanks
Rafael Machado
2013/1/31 Andrew Fish <af...@apple.com>
>
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Rod Smith <rodsm...@rodsbooks.com> wrote:
>
> > wasn't referring to the configuration file vs. Makefile issue, but to
> > the layout of files within the package and the relationship of a
> > project's (rEFInd's) source files as being within the library's
> > (TianoCore's) directory tree. That said, I've done very little Windows
> > development, so I may be off base on that. I don't really know that
> > other big libraries encourage building applications within their
> > directory trees. I do recall that this sort of thing was common for
> > other DOS and Windows programs like word processors back in the 1980s
> > and early 1990s.
> >
>
> The history is coming back to me ......
>
> I think the driving force behind the single tree "world view" is paranoia
> about build reproducibility. If you have a few million PCs out in the world
> and at some point after the you stopped working on the firmware for that
> machine you need to send a patch you would like to pull a tree from source
> control and make the smallest changes possible. If you botch a firmware
> update in the field you can brick the customers machines....
>
> So this paranoid world view is why the tools, source to the tools, source
> to everything is in a single tree.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Fish
>
> Andy Grove - "Only the Paranoid Survive"
>
>
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