Hello valued OpenCSW users :) A question has come up regarding what the best interface for our packages would be, in the area of compiling tools, and so I'd like to ask for your input. Voting is pretty quick and painless, so please dont let that put you off; your opinion is important!
The question is around the issue of development tools, that come with their own wrappers or other interfaces, to compiling and linking things. (ie: tools to compile perl modules, apache modules, python/ruby, etc...) Sometimes, it is necessary for opencsw to "pick one and stick with one (compiler)". However, in other cases, it is possible to support both gcc, and cc. So the question then becomes, "how would you prefer that we do so?" The two ways we have thought of so far, are: a) Supply two versions of the front end (or possibly, two versions of the back-end configuration file), and then allow your site admin to pick ONE of them to be globally active, via our (alternatives) mechanism. b) auto-select flags, based on whether you set your CC environment to be "gcc" or "cc". In both cases, some reasonable default will be chosen, if no explicit selection is made on your end. Please let us know which way you, our users, would generally prefer! To vote: Please go to http://www.ballotbin.com/voterReg.php?b=21033 and put in your email address It will then email you a custom link for you to vote. Dont worry, you dont have to "create an account" or anything; this is a one-time dealie. Once you get to the page, it's basically just two clicks, and you are done. Thank you for participating! _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
