On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:36 AM, hasufell wrote:
> Longterm, this makes it year after year more difficult to develop
> software for "Linux". Instead (like valve), people start to develop for
> certain distros only (like Ubuntu), because it's just too much work to
> bother with all this hackery-her
Rich Freeman:
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM, hasufell wrote:
>>
>> Our philosophy states that our tools "should be a joy to use". If we add
>> random hackery on stuff that affects portability across distros, then
>> this doesn't hold true anymore.
>>
>
> Which one of our tools is at risk of n
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM, hasufell wrote:
>
> Our philosophy states that our tools "should be a joy to use". If we add
> random hackery on stuff that affects portability across distros, then
> this doesn't hold true anymore.
>
Which one of our tools is at risk of not being a joy to use? A
Markos Chandras:
>> Gentoo, almost all pkgconfig files come from upstream with minimal
>> modification. So a .pc file that is specific to Gentoo is a rare
>> exception, and it could cause confusion for users who installed Gentoo
>> on their development machine and who wish to develop new portable
>
Markos Chandras:
> On 05/09/2014 09:32 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:15:58 -0400
>> Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> I think fixing upstream is a no-brainer.
>>
>> It indeed is, this is the goal; you can force them in multiple ways,
>> some of which can be found on the Lua bug and prev
Rich Freeman:
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 May 2014 20:57:29 +0100
>> Markos Chandras wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering, is there a good reason we keep our own pkgconfig
>>> files instead of communicating that to upstream and resolve that
>>> properly?
>>
>> Yes,
On 10/05/14 12:39, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On 05/10/2014 07:31 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 13:50 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote:
>>> On 10 May 2014 04:34, Markos Chandras wrote:
On 05/09/2014 09:32 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:15:58 -0400
>
On 05/10/2014 07:31 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 13:50 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote:
>> On 10 May 2014 04:34, Markos Chandras wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2014 09:32 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:15:58 -0400
Rich Freeman wrote:
> I think fixing ups
