[Fedora-packaging] MinGW subpackages of OCaml packages

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:52 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:45:45AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 17:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:12:25PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > So as I mentioned before we have an OCaml Windows cross-compiler as
> > > > part of the Fedora MinGW project:
> > > 
> > > Everyone's happy with me to go ahead with this?
> > I am not, but I am sure if I understand you correctly.
> > 
> > Is your plan to build mingw packages as part of building Fedora packages
> > within the Fedora build system? If yes, I am opposed to doing this.
> 
> I'm a bit confused by this.  You are aware that we are planning to
> build lots of mingw packages in Fedora (using the build system) to
> enable cross-compilation?
No, but if so, I have to reiterate to be vehemently disagreeing with
this and will never agree with it.

Shipping cross-toolchains as part of Fedora to enable users to build
MinGW binaries is OK with me, but abusing Fedora to support Windows is
not OK with me.

Ralf