Plan for tomorrows (20080910) FESCO meeting

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 05:11:59 UTC 2008


On Thursday 11 September 2008 07:48:59 pm Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Using MinGW as a BR isn't really an issue.  If we did it Debian's way
> the resulting nsis tool itself would run natively under Fedora... like
> our MinGW executable does?
>
> is there a reason why should not prefer to have a native nsis executable?
>
> It seems to me that we should prefer native executables when its
> possible, and treat anything non-native as exceptions which will
> require some oversight.
>
> -jef

FWIW, I used Kevin's nsis package recently to build an installer. Works fine, 
though I had to roll my own dep-solver (I could package it up for other to use; 
it is just a NSIS header or two). Testing's a pain, but that's to be expected 
of any cross-target toolchain.

--Ben




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