RE: [Monotone-devel] Re: bundled libs

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> 
> Hello Stephen,
> 
> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > Windows MinGW is an important platform (because of the number of
> > users), and it has essentially no distribution package manager (just
> a
> > SourceForge site), and no pcre package at the moment.
> 
> Agreed. And how's the Visual C++ build doing?

[Kelly F. Hickel] (just responded a minute ago to an earlier one).  I
think it works fairly well, there are 2 or 3 tests (IIRC) that don't
pass, someone who understands what they are supposed to be doing needs
to look at them.  Every now and then someone commits a change that makes
the tests die, but since the popup is annoying, I usually fix those
fairly quickly.  These changes are usually incrementing an iterator past
the start/end of a string.

Visual Studio Express is free, BTW....

> 
> > On the other hand, Windows Cygwin is easy to use. On the gripping
> > hand, some people just hate Windows Cygwin.
> 
> Yes, from what I know, it's said to be slow.
> 
> > I'm not clear what it would take to contribute a MinGW pcre package,
> > but that does seem like the right approach.
> 
> Well, I'm not only talking about pcre, but also about botan, sqlite
and
> lua. Please note that pcre, sqlite and lua all provide some windows
> dlls
>   to download. I'm not sure if these are compatible or could be used.
> So
> even if there's no package manager, there are packages. So we could
> maybe simply distribute the monotone win32 binary together with the
> required dlls? Hoping no other program changes those DLLs? How does
> Windows do package management? How can such a thing even work?
> 
> So, maybe it's simpler for us to just bundle what we need with
> monotone.
> And if we need to do that for windows, we can as well do it on
> net.venge.monotone as a standard procedure and provide the bundled
> variant for Unixen as well.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> 
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