> On Mar 8, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Tim Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Erik -- > > What is the justification? Moving from more immediately usable to less > immediately usable doesn't seem, on the surface, to be a good direction. > Why not go the other direction and pre-build the binaries for the other > environments? >
Tim, I'm not a big fan of the prebuilt tools. In a production environment it is usually preferable to have source and to NOT check in binaries. Given the other environments have Python by default I don't see the value of pre-building the tools on Unix systems? I think the ease of use issue is really a different issue (other than having to install Python). Most projects you start from the root and type make (nmake). A top level makefile would abstract the building of the tools and the need to setup environment variables. Why can't I pull a git repo and do: $ make OvmfPkgX64 I grant it may be hard to automagically pick the compiler but you can do things like: $ make OvmfPkgX64 BUILD_FLAGS="-n 1 -t XCODE" As long as build.py acts like a compiler and the last version of a given flag wins this should be easy to do. Thanks, Andrew Fish > Thanks, > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: edk2-devel <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bjorge, Erik > C > Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [edk2] RFC: Proposal to halt automatic builds of Windows BaseTools > executables > > I would like to propose that the automatic builds of Windows BaseTools > executables be halted. This implies there will no longer be updates to the > edk2-BaseTools-win32 repository. > > With this change, developers using Windows must install Python 2.7.x and > configure their environment to build C tools and run python scripts from > sources. This matches the development experience for non-Windows > environments. > > Please respond with comments by 03/23/2018. > > Thanks, > -Erik > > _______________________________________________ > edk2-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel > > _______________________________________________ > edk2-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
