Plan for tomorrows (20080910) FESCO meeting

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> But with the Debian approach (BR the MinGW toolchain and build it completely
> from source that way), we could have a fully functional (or almost) native NSIS
> (well, as native as NSIS is, it's a cross-tool just like MinGW, the generated
> installers are Window$-only), even with plugins, and completely built from
> source.

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