On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Jordan Justen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:45 -0700, Andrew Fish wrote:
>>> The current BaseTools process does not seem to work for any one
>>> who does not have a @intel.com email address, and that seems like
>>> a broken thing for an open source project.
>>
>> What difference does the @intel.com email address make with regards
>> to this? I've been having to use BaseTools from trunk rather than
>> edk2/BaseTools for nearly a year to have GCC 4.7 support.
>
> Have you been nagging the mailing list or @intel.com?

Mailing list

>> Now, apparently you have to have an @intel.com email address to
>> participate in code reviews for most contributions from Intel,
>> but that is another matter. :)
>
> Or to know any information about the schedule roadmap or plans.....
> Syncs from the BaseTools project just see to fall randomly from the
> sky based on some priority not related to some targets,  processors
> or toolchains....

I would like to think that working together with the community (ie,
day-to-day code reviews) would lead to better communication of the
other aspects of the project.

>> Another question I have relates to BaseTools/Bin/Win32.
>> Why is this not an extra download rather than part of the *source*
>> tree?
>
> Well there is not a good scheme to pull what you want....
> For Visual Studio development folks generally use the frozen
> Python and it is much easier to just pull the binary.

I know the freeze thing is a pain, which is why I say make a separate
binary release of the tools to plop down in BaseTools/Bin/Win32. Like
today, but not directly in the source tree.

It seems a bit patronizing to Windows developers to assume they need
extra pampering.
...To assume that they can't be bothered to download and unzip a
binary release of the BaseTools for their platform.

-Jordan

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