Fwd: Re: [TSVN] VS2005 Migration Patchball

Stefan Küng wrote:
> While struggling with all those patches, ...

Believe me, I know what you are talking about ;)

> ... I realized that it's just too
> much work to get all this (including the patching) into a build script.

You are definitely right. It should be improved step by step -
not in one giant leap, I guess.

> So I think we just just include the precompiled libraries in our
> sourcetree. We already do that for e.g. the berkeley db's, so why not
> for apr/Subversion/... too? This would also improve the build time a lot.

Hm ... I think this is a good proposal. So I am +1 for it. However,
one should be aware of the implications:

* TSVN development will be based on "fixed" (maybe tagged)
  SVN versions (e.g. 1.3.0rc2 instead 1.3.x).
* You still need a process to create the libraries from source
  in a *reproduceable* way. This process will be less mature /
  dummy proof then the build process of the TSVN main product.

> So I'll change the whole build system accordingly. But first without x64
> support - I hope you can take care of that later or help me to do it.

Absolutely. The focus should be getting TSVN back to level
it was before the transition to VS2k5. For me, life will already
be much simpler then.

Stefan

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Received on Sun Dec 4 22:28:27 2005