[Chicken-users] Re: Win32 maintenance

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:

> I'm somewhat reluctant to delegate jobs like this, as it's not on me to
> select someone, but from what I've heard so far, Brandon would be
> willing to test all CMake-related things (MSVC 2003, VCToolkit and mingw32).
>  
CMake also targets Cygwin, BTW.  And Borland.

> Sergey: Is it ok for you to do the tests for the other platforms? That would
> mean cygwin, mingw32 + normal makefiles. And, would you perhaps
> be willing to take a look at Watcom?
>  
I think we are operating from different premises here.  My premise is, 
the CMake build currently works and is fully functional.  Although, come 
to think of it, maybe chicken-setup is still missing, I don't recall 
offhand.  Felix, your premise seems to be that CMake doesn't work, and 
that therefore, 2 people are needed to do 2 different jobs.  My view is 
that only 1 person is needed to do 1 job, with CMake.

This is leaving aside Watcom.  I think Bob can do the primary support 
for Watcom.  I'm willing to work with him on getting CMake to support 
Watcom, if he's interested in that.

I was hoping Sergey might have a higher capacity and interest in Windows 
patching and debugging than I do.  These are beyond my capabilities at 
present.  I'm still too green at Chicken.  Spent the last 3 months 
getting MinGW to build reliably with CMake....

> Windows binaries: I think it really makes sense to provide them for
> each major release (not snapshots). The binaries should go to call/cc.org,
> I can provide the FTP username and password.
>  
It may become trivial to provide snapshot binaries once I've automated 
my build system.  I'm not there yet though.

> And finally: I need someone to bug with stupid questions, like "hey,
> could you try running this code", or "chicken-setup fails mysteriously here".
> Is that ok with you?
>  
That's what I was hoping Sergey wanted to do.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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