Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:58:38PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: >> at the same time i'd name cross-headers on all platform (ie. rename >> mingw32-w32api to headers to use the same naming convention). > > Yeah ... but ... > > The name of mingw32-w32api has almost no impact on end users, since we > wouldn't expect them to install this package explicitly. > > So we'd rename it, at a cost of a full review, hours of work at > minimum. But to what purpose?
cross-headers can be build form the same src.rpm (which contains 3 source tarball) as any other cross pacakges. >> another good question is the filesystem layout which probably should >> have to change. > > Why? The filesystem layout is defined in the approved packaging > guidelines, and is partly imposed on us by decisions in the upstream > MinGW.org project. Changing this involves fielding packaging > guidelines through FPC (ie. weeks and weeks of argument), plus at > least recompiling and probably changing *all* the packages (ie. 1-2 > months of work), and that's assuming we could patch all the tools to > understand our particular filesystem layout. not rally actually in your previous letter you already modify it for mingw64. and filessystme layout only have to change in filesystem's macros and a mass rebuild. > So this is months of work, but really for no benefit whatsoever. the layout can be the same on all target platform. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
