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Re: Standardizing the Windows build
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at indiegamedesign dot com>
- Cc: xconq <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:46:25 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Standardizing the Windows build
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> >From private discussion with Eric, it seems there is no standard,
> canonical build environment for Xconq on Windows. There aren't even any
> regular Windows developers, apparently? Xconq development is
> Linux-centric
I told you that Hans develops on the Mac.
> I am willing to do the work of creating MS Visual Studio project files,
> if we can come to a consensus on what the standards should be. A
> non-exhaustive list of issues:
>
> - TCL distributions. Eric thinks the TCL binary currently distributed
> with Cygwin is broken. I'm not sure myself,
Actually, I'm the one who isn't sure. What I am pretty sure about
is that the Cygwin Tcl installation on _your_ system is broken. If
your TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC points to a nonexistent directory, then
something isn't right. (And if this argument is going to reach
flamewar crescendo again, let's take it back off-list.)
> - Religion about commercial IDEs. If most of you think MS Visual Studio
> is Evil, then we aren't going to get anywhere. Most of us Windoze
It's not a matter of being evil. I simply would not want to say
that I would want that to be the only approved, supported way to
build Xconq under Windows. I think it can and should be an
alternative though. And if you make it a viable alternative, I
can't imagine anyone complaining.
> I'd better give you full disclosure on my various development agendas.
> That way you can make up your mind whether I'd be a welcome contributor
> or a downright menace.
It's hard to be a menace to GPL'd code unless you're stealing
copyrights or violating the rather liberal terms of the license.
> Second disclosure: I'm interested in DirectX and .NET stuff. Sure it's
Some DirectX optimization for the Windows Tcl/Tk and SDL apps
might be desirable.
Eric