MinGW

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Sep 22 01:39:08 UTC 2008


Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I belive (and I stated as much in the FESCo meeting where we talked about
> > this briefly), that the crux of the issue with your proposal is the "needs
> > to build natively" item.  That is the issue FESCo needs to further consider,
> > along with the packaging guidelines that the MinGW SIG is drafting.
> 
> I fully accept that this issue needs thought. And your right, this
> cross compiling stuff is different. I'm fully aware that I'm muddying
> the waters with analogies to 2ndary arches. But its the only
> comparison my pea-sized brain is capable of finding and holding on to
> to as a reference point as we pilot this steam boat up river into
> unknown waters. Toshio asked for an explanation of my thinking...i've
> given it. If the reasoning doesn't make sense to anyone else,
> continuing to ask me to re-explain my thinking is probably not going
> to particularly fruitful...until we find an interpreter who is fluent
> in Jef-speak.

Perhaps you should accept this /is/ new waters, and not try to find
analogies elsewhere. Analogies have a way of misleading.
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