On 17/05/17 14:53, bartc wrote:
On 17/05/2017 13:35, Rhodri James wrote:
On 17/05/17 01:41, bartc wrote:
As a cross-platform developer, I find your naivity refreshing. If only
life were so simple.
When you develop code yourself, you can lay out your files however you
find most convenient, code to the foibles of your compiler, operating
system and indeed processor, and use whatever tools you choose. The
moment you expect anyone else to compile your code, all of those
conveniences go out of the window, and things become more complex, not
less. Arbitrary compilation environments require more support than
development, not less.
That's all true. But the answer is not to make it a nightmare for
everyone else as well as yourself. If the requirement is to get other
people to build your product from source for the purpose of using it or
testing it (and for various reasons using prebuilt binaries is not an
option), then the process ought to be as painless as possible.
Few people seem to see the point in making that effort.
I'm not talking about my programs for a change. (I mentioned my compiler
as an example of one that is faster than tcc but not as fast as gcc.)
You should be. You are claiming something is easy. Chris invited you
to consider how easy it isn't for code you know well. That you keep
fighting shy of doing so does not speak well of you as a programmer.
It doesn't work. I can post something that is easy to compile, but
someone is going to say, Ah, but it doesn't do this, it doesn't do that,
it doesn't work on X...
"Few people seem to see the point in making that effort."
Oh, the irony.
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