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

[Sean Dague]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:52:35PM +0200, Tleiades wrote:
> A unified build system often means using the lowest common denominater. 
> Meaning that we loose all the benefits of an IDE.

We currently have lowest common denominator.  It works enough for
writing code, and is pretty broken when providing buildable source trees
to end users.

>  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?

Again, madness. :)

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

Binaries shouldn't be in svn.  That is a short cut today, but only leads
to lots of support questions on #opensim.  Growing the user and
developer community means addressing those.

	-Sean

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