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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/5/2010 2:41 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> What kind of build options are we talking about?
>> For some projects this might be a problem, but I think there are
>> enough projects for which this will not be a problem.
>
> Optimization flags, availability of .pdb debugging symbols (e.g. equivalent of
> foo-debug linux/bsd distro package variants), etc.

I'm not sure I understand the problem.
Different projects might use different optimizations, so what?

> For the vast majority of projects, this will be a problem, and you have to look
> no further than the patch sets of any distro to be convinced.

> Which means, simply, that projects friendly to recommendations are warmly received
> as the exceptions, while CoApp needs to streamline itself to handling the vast
> majority of non-responsive projects, or who are otherwise of other minds on the
> topic of building on win32.
>
> CoApp seeks to be one very specific way to do it.  If it happens to work for the
> upstream project, wonderful :)  If not, it's open source, and when it's broke we
> get to glue both pieces together.