On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 01:29:45PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 1:01 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 12:17:08AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > > Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > > Fwiw, given that the primary use case for a cross-toolchain is for > > > > developer needs, I think it is reasonable to have only UCRT target in > > the > > > > future. > > > > > > > > Projects releasing for Windows should probably natively build and test > > > > their releases with Msys2, and they can do so for msvcrt targets. > > > > > > Well, with cross-MinGW and cross-NSIS, I can package software for > > Windows > > > without ever touching a Windows machine. I have done so more than once > > > already. I do not even have a Windows installation on which I can run > > Msys2. > > > > Exactly, this is the precise reason why a group of us started > > the Fedora mingw packaging effort all those years ago. > > > > I have a Windows machine for testing / debugging on, but it is so > > much simpler if we can do cross builds from Linux, as it means we > > don't have to switch context between machines when developing. > > > > Nowadays, with the built-in ssh server, git, msys2, meson, docker and > CI..., developing for Windows is much easier than it was 10y ago!
That's an entire second OS and suite of development tools to maintain on an ongoing basis. If you're working on this every day, maybe that's a worthwhile investment, but for most developers that's not at all compelling. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
