Kelly O'Hair wrote:
Anthony Petrov wrote:
Hi Kelly,
On 07/31/2008 10:58 PM Kelly O'Hair wrote:
So no plugin code, no installation bundle code, etc.
Right. But all the currently opensourced code was buildable at that
time.
From this point it was clean: VS2005ExpressSP1 + Platform SDK for
Win2003R2 + DirectX SDK June 2007 + cygwin. Nothing else.
That sounds right then. (I assume you also dealt with the manifest
issue?)
Yes, I manually created the *.exe.manifest files (see 6523947 for the
workaround).
Sounds right. But be careful doing any plug and play with a jvm.dll.
One needs to build the hotspot first, and then use the
ALT_HOTSPOT_IMPORT_PATH to point the j2se makefiles to the correct jvm.
Until they get opensourced, the community doesn't need to worry
about their compatibility with Express, does it?
Remains to be seen. We have no control over this compiler and
cannot predict what happens with each Express compiler release.
Frankly, we don't have much control over the Professional compiler as
well. So I don't see any significant difference between the free and
commercial editions of VS from this point.
In one case we can insist on a fix because we paid good money for it,
in the other you can only ask and wait.
The difference is in the support level you get.
I would always expect to see a greater concern about customer
satisfaction
with a purchased product over a free one.
-kto
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best regards,
Anthony
The other major concern is that I can count on the VS Professional I buy
today to be the EXACT same one I bought 3 years ago. I'm not sure that I
can download the same Express one all the time. We've had this problem
with using the MS SDK, as finding the one we use (April 2003) to
download now is a big issue, as MS has issued updated ones in the
meantime. This isn't so much a problem for Sun, as we keep copies lying
around, but for our Community-at-large, who need the ability to find the
tools we specify when doing a build of their own.
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