On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Jordan Justen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Well at the time most developers were using Windows and this was done just for ease of use. One download is easier than multiple. Things have change quite a lot since then, and the scheme has not really kept up with the times.... I'm not working on OVMF, but when I pull the edk2 tree I get a copy. So I think this is a more general issue. If we had a more platform centric way to pull a tree would could probably leverage it to solve this issue too. Thanks, Andrew Fish > -Jordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ edk2-buildtools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-buildtools-devel
