I would add Ubuntu 386 to the common/easy cases.
Reid
On Jun 16, 2006, at 20:57, John Anderson wrote:
How about doing option 1 for the common/easy cases, e.g. windows
and maybe mac and option 2 for the hard/rare cases, e.g. linux.
After all, linux people are used to having to build their
executables and windows people are used to having prebuilt binaries.
John
Markku Mielityinen wrote:
Hi all,
I, Bear, and Heikki were just discussing how to distribute the
tools that are required in the development of Chandler. These
tools include, but are not limited to, gettext and wx tools/utils.
In this discussion we came up with two approaches that we want to
present for public criticism.
1) We make a new build target that downloads prebuilt binaries of
the tools much in the same way as "make DEBUG=0" downloads
prebuilt binaries of Chandler. This approach is fast but on the
other hand consideration is needed to copy the right distribution
for all platforms, and as the number of different platforms that
we need to support increases so does the burden of maintenance.
The obvious weakness is that in Linux (and other "you should
compile it yourself" environments) binaries are not always
portable even between different versions of the same distribution.
Hence, the number or required prebuilt binaries may turn out to be
too large to handle.
2) We obtain sources from all the required external tools and
place them in external/ folder from which they are compiled and
installed as part of "make world" or some other build target. By
installation I mean that the obtained executables are placed so
that they are accessible without a need to copy files or alter
path manually. This approach adds bloat to the project but on the
other hand we can be sure that the tools work on all target
platforms.
3) Is the a better way to do this?
We hope to hear your input before Tuesday, as we need to start
implementing this soon.
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