Re: [odin-devel] [LONG] Broken (lib)vista copyright
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Gert Wollny wrote:
I just tested Odin with vistaio, it compiles without problems, and the
vista-test runs through. (I had more trouble, getting it to find QT4 and
QWT5 on my Gentoo installation). The access to vista is very well
separated into one source file and the required configure tests.
Sounds positive that Odin might work as well with "vista_gabi".
In my code it is similar, plug-ins are created that don't export any
vista-dependencies to other modules.
For that reason, I couldn't care less, which version of vista makes it,
if only we can add some more data types that should be orthogonal to
everything else in the library, add the defines for declspec enabled on
MS Windows, and the build process can (alternatively) use cmake (which
would just add a bunch of CMakeLists.txt files).
BTW: I've heart KDE went cmake, so those guys should now have some
experience in building Debian packages by using it.
Well, I have no reason to assume that cmake will cause unsolvable
trouble - so just implement whatever makes your library more
portable and we will see what might be necessary to build clean
Debian packages from it.
I think, if a/the software goes public, it will be changed by people
(fixing bugs, adding features), and therefore, testing it "all over
again" is inevitable. Hence, in order to insure code integrity, I'd
suggest to release a set of automatic unit tests and test data alongside
with the code that reduces the testing to "make check/test".
Very good idea and it might enhance the quality independently from
all the fork issues.
Looking foreward to see the confusion dissolving
Andreas.
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