For all not-so-techie guys who want to start building and possibly develop ReactOS and for many testers it's important to keep it super-simple, RosBE is just so simple anyone can get started and it's not threatning at all. This is really important in my opinion.
I also follow the Contiki OS, they also have a development suite, but it is a VMware Player image of the size of more then 2GB To include Ubuntu + build tools and utilities, that is heavy and mega crippled. I also insist on one RosBE including all needed portions of the building environment. I also would like to see some util for translators to make that easy. I would like something like RosTE too, a one installation package including a Test Environment with VM automatic iso downloader, debug-tools and such. ReactOS is supposed to be easy, keep it that way. /Jaix Bly Jan Blomqvist Kinander "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev@reactos.org> wrote on Fri, June 3rd, 2011, 9:42 AM: > Zachary Gorden wrote: > > I object highly to the idea of bundling cmake with the BE. Most > > platforms already have binaries built of cmake, either by the distro or > > for Windows, the people who make cmake provide an installer. > > I don't see the point here, you could say exactly the same about every > tool we bundle. > > > > We provide the compilers and linkers and we provided rbuildbecause it was > > our own > > thing, but cmake is not and has its own environment. > > There are also easily installable third-party MinGW environments, but > this is not the point. > RosBE started as a project to bundle all build tools (always including > GNU Make by the way), even when we didn't need our own specially patched > versions yet. This is precisely why ReactOS is one of the easiest > operating systems to compile and we can have 5-minute tutorials like > this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnt7s2zEZFo > > On top of this, it allows us to have comparable builds between all > developers, because we can be sure that they use the very same tools. > I don't want to spend nights of debugging if problems are suddenly > caused by using different CMake versions. > > I'm very reluctant to drop these fundamental ideas behind RosBE. They > have certainly saved every ReactOS developer much time. > > > - Colin > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
