Rush Manbert <[email protected]> writes: > > But many people can't do that for various reasons, and lex and yacc > are not available, nor are the autotools. I have managed to wrestle > the entire C++ runtime library into a shape where it can be used in > Windows without requiring any GNU tools installed. (Of course, I had > to use more boost libraries to make that happen. :-) But I couldn't do > anything about the Thrift compiler. For us, and others who develop on > both Windows and *nix platforms, we can sidestep the compiler issue by > generating all the code on the *nix system. But it seems to me that > this is a rather large barrier to adoption in the Windows world.
you are describing some of the same problems we have had. > For us, the Thrift compiler performance is absolutely not an issue, > and I don't think it would become one if the compiler were written in > Java. As long as it Just Worked and only required us to install a > standard Java distro, I'd be happy. I concur, the compiler performance is a non-issue. -Bjørn
