[PD-dev] section in SVN for Windows sources

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:46 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Am I missing something, or is this just snarkiness? :)
>
> the kernel-thing is.
>
> my objections against putting everything that might help you  
> building something into the repository are not.
> i think it is an abuse of sourceforge's ressources. (projects like  
> flac, lame,... are already hosted on sourceforge - why would you  
> have to duplicate the amount of data?)
>
> i beg you to at least have a look at the svn-external tag for  
> projects that are already developed via subversion.
> for all the rest, i think a simple "download-stuff.bat" script  
> would have done as well.

I have looked at svn-externals, it doesn't work for this.  I need to  
make changes to the code.  I beg you to walk a mile in my shoes, then  
judge.  At least trying setting up and documenting a MinGW build  
environment on Windows, and you'll see why I am doing this.

SourceForge is providing tools for us to write software.  I am using  
the tools exactly as they are designed and it is saving me and others  
lots of work.  Where's the harm?

.hc

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