I don't recall specific problems reported on building uwin also, I don't know what "the easy way" means the posted instructions are the way we do it
On Fri, 31 May 2013 23:53:39 +0200 Simon Toedt wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:17 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > > cc: [email protected] [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] [uwin-users] uwin-users Digest, Vol 98, Issue > > 10 > > -------- > > > >> Try one: I assume AT&T has documentation writers. Could they spare a > >> few manhours a week to work on the documentation for UWIN and AST? > >> Try two: Building UWIN counts IMO as black art. Is there any engineer > >> or fellow researcher not involved in UWIN who can try to build it with > >> gcc and document the effort? If normal people can build UWIN > >> themselves then a lot more people could join the boat. > >> > >> > > > > There might be some documentation writers in some departments (for > > example public relations), but there are none in research. > > > > One reason for making UWIN OpenSource was to get people to do some > > of this work. We can be helpful in reading over documentation and > > providing bug fixed, but the community as a whole is needed. > Right now the community (as it feels from being outside AT&T) is > locked out. There's no GIT (why GIT anyway with so few developers? Why > not SVN?) for your development trunk, there's no way to build UWIN the > easy way, or built it at all (yes, I tried. Two coworkers with PhD in > Informatics tried too. All three without success) and there is no darn > documentation or a way to provide issue-specific feedback with issue > life cycle management (Trac, Bugzilla, ...). > AT&T has to provide a basis for a community which goes beyond a > mailinglist. Without that happening you can scream community over and > over again but help won't happen from that direction. > > > > We wrote a faster an more reliable Unix for Windows that Cygwin and > > it is up the the user community to help enhance it. > The community as you want it is currently locked out. And honestly, I > think you guys need external help building a community because the > snake is biting itself into its own tail all over and over again. > Someone has to break that endless loop. > Simon > _______________________________________________ > ast-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
