Re: [xml] win32 build system

["Francesco Montorsi" <f18m_cpp217828 yahoo it>]

Hi,

> > > - nor adding all the generated makefiles
> > why ? This would make much easier to everyone to use the build system.
>
>  Because the official Windows build is Igor's one. Igor takes most of the
> Windows issues and problems. If we clearly put a different build out then
> people will start push request on him while they use a different build
> system. And as I could see, on Windows new build way == new bugs, c.f.
> for example the bug the Joel and William have been chasing so far 
> unsuccess-
> fully just because they changed a /MD onto /MT on Microsoft compiler.
> I want the people who use bakefile to at least have gone though the
> readme, the bakefile install, before hitting any potential bug, i.e.
> those people can work and debug at least minimally on their own.
Ok; I got the point :-)
I also appreciate your disposability to a new build system: some other 
projects
(lua, gmp) didn't accept my bakefiles at all !
I think that what's new is usually, as you said, buggy but it could be also
very interesting and powerful; better give to bakefile a chance... ;-)

> > The size of the BUILD folder is about 317 Kb and I think it wouldn't be a
> > great problem adding it entirely...
>
>  It's less a question of size, and more a question of making sure
> people building this way know what they are doing. Bakefile is far from
> ubiquitous, I'm fine suggestion it as a solution, but we are not ready
> to cope with problems resulting from its use :-)
I understand :-)


>  If I add those 3 files (libxml2.bkl, bakefiles.bkgen, Readme.txt) I will
> put them under "bakefile", build is far too generic.
Ok; I hope they will be useful to the libxml2 project.

Francesco Montorsi