From: David Doolin (doolin@cs.utk.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 09:47:32 EDT
In message <20001004104211.A14778@w3.org>, Daniel Veillard writes:
>
>On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:23:05AM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> As more support for the MSVC compiler is added, I just wanted to
>> remind the porters, not to usurp the WIN32 #ifdefs for specific MSVC
>> stuff.
Right. No need for this.
>>
>> There are still users of other compilers out there and I hope we can
>> peacefully co-exist.
>
> Do you have something specific in mind ?
I do.
>
> I don't plan to accept compiler specific #ifdef/#endif for the C code.
>I'm okay to have some limited to the include files though.
>
> The rule of the game for the Windows port is to get everything
> within the WIN32 sections, and if there is any compiler tweaks
> needed to limit them to win32config.h
>
> Considering the Makefiles again if there is one such file which can
>content 80% of the Windows users, I will include it in the distribution.
>If one need to maintain 3 or 4 I would prefer to keep them as external
>contributions to avoid bitrot.
All of this stuff dumped into an `offical' win32 subdirectory
puts the burden on the win32 users of those tools, while allowing
Daniel to enforce whatever constraints he wants on patches.
>
>Daniel
>
>--
>Daniel.Veillard@w3.org | W3C, INRIA Rhone-Alpes | Today's Bookmarks :
>Tel : +33 476 615 257 | 655, avenue de l'Europe | Linux XML libxml WWW
>Fax : +33 476 615 207 | 38330 Montbonnot FRANCE | Gnome rpm2html rpmfind
> http://www.w3.org/People/all#veillard%40w3.org | RPM badminton Kaffe
>----
>Message from the list xml@rpmfind.net
>Archived at : http://xmlsoft.org/messages/
>to unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe xml" | mail majordomo@rpmfind.net
---- Message from the list xml@rpmfind.net Archived at : http://xmlsoft.org/messages/ to unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe xml" | mail majordomo@rpmfind.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Oct 04 2000 - 10:44:57 EDT