Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bob McIsaac wrote:

> IMO, maintaining a universal build tool that works for both windows 
> and unix
> is too complicated given the broken-minded idioms found on the windows
> platform.    Mingw and Cygwin only extend this complexity. So it is 
> better
> to have a separate windows build system.

I am tempted to fume mightily at you for such a remark.  So I will ask 4 
pointed questions, to see if I'm overracting and there is indeed a basis 
for rational discussion:

1) do you care about building stuff on Windows?  Is this actually 
important to you, or are you one of those Unix-only types?

2) what do you propose as a "separate Windows build system," considering 
that Windows has many compilers, all requiring different build systems?  
Are you proposing anything other than "well I was just going to support 
my own favorite compiler and leave other people hanging" ?

3) do you actually know anything about CMake?

4) are you doing, or going to do, any real work to resolve 
cross-platform build issues?


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
"We live in a world of very bright people building
crappy software with total shit for tools and process."
                               - Ed McKenzie