[Opensim-dev] 3rd party libs and build system revisited

[Tleiades]

A unified build system often means using the lowest common denominater. 
Meaning that we loose all the benefits of an IDE.

 If the windows people are to help write code, they need VS projects. I 
agree that prebuilt isn't the most advanced tool, but it does a decent job. 
Why not arrange a set of subfolders for the platform specific binaries, and 
provide a tool which will copy the correct version into the bin directory?

If a developer needs a specific platform, it will be his task to maintain 
the correct version of the binaries in svn.

/tleiades
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net>
To: "Tleiades" <tleiades at hotmail.com>
Cc: <opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] 3rd party libs and build system revisited


> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Tleiades wrote:
>> I sounds like good way of moving forward, but couldn't we make some sort 
>> of
>> compromise?
>>
>> I think the prebuilt thingie is pretty elegant for .net code. So building
>> the externals using nant and OpenSim .net assemblies using the existing
>> system?
>
> I'm not sure what that means exactly.  I think if we don't have a single
> command that is run that builds the whole tree (including externals) it
> doesn't win us enough.
>
> Having spent a bunch of time trying to hack prebuild, I'm convinced that
> is the wrong approach for anything complicated, and not something I'm
> really interested in spending much more time on.
>
> I really think a single unified build system will help a lot with the
> project moving forward, especially as we get folks out on new platforms
> and architectures.
>
>       -Sean
>
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