this analogy is probably dating me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_spinning
(cute that the reference mentions "broken" records)
that pretty much sums up dgk and me and jkf with
{ uwin ast and 80% internal work that hasn't been divulged to the list }
we keep the most important stuff spinning and the rest goes on the todo list
e.g., when an internal customer has a uwin problem they don't want a document
patch, they just want it to work
here are ways the community can help:
* if you have successfully built opensource packages not distributed with uwin
please mention them on the list
* if a package requires patches to get it working please report the patch
and we can see if its a uwin deficiency that needs to be addressed --
or maybe part of the patch could be
"workaround for uwin not having proper header H macro M library L"
* if someone wants to reproduce the uwin build from source, maybe that person
could
help document the process as they trudge through it -- when it works it
should be simple:
install { uwin-base uwin-dev } binaries
download and read in uwin source tgz
cd $INSTALLROOT/source
nmake install
we're more than happy to address problems that people report
*but* they have to be more than
"the build broke here's the contents of $(package results path)"
an example of a very useful recent report is mhlavink's analysis of
why the ksh source build missed the -lm library
* non-msvc compilation is a long time leader on the wish list, but it always
slips
behind other issues -- if someone wants to persue this it would be great;
the main point to keep in mind: we want to do it with minimal change to the
current uwin source
* git is a current sore point again related to time -- we don't have a good
short-term
solution but its on the todo list ...
* "at&t should this that and the other thing" w.r.t. { uwin ast } really boils
down to
"dgk & gsf should ..." so posts with instructions for "at&t" are a waste of
bandwidth
maybe those posts could morph into an active wishlist constructed in such a
way that
the "uwin & ast community" can tick off items and contribute back to uwin
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