Re: [Tinycc-devel] TinyCC-Win32 Port Created on Sf.net

[Charlie Gordon]

This is a sad decision!
Why split a project just for the sake of porting it to Windows ?
Why can't you just add the necessary features to the existing project ?
It is going to be very difficult to keep both projects in sync !
Why did Fabrice not respond and object to this ?
Take after the Lucid emacs split : jwz did this just to make a stable
version ship... It quickly became impossible to resync, and now has become a
major religious schism (this is the XEmacs story).
Are you planning to duplicate tinycc source tree or just extend it with Gui
and tools extensions ?
Please don't do it!
Fabrice please react to this!

Charlie Gordon.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Harning Jr." <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 3:28 AM
Subject: [Tinycc-devel] TinyCC-Win32 Port Created on Sf.net


> To all Win32 TinyCC desirers, the port to Win32 has its own Sourceforge
> project.
> http://www.sf.net/projects/tinycc-win32 is the root project page
> http://tinycc-win32.sf.net has not been set up yet since I have been
> working to create a release.
> The release should be up ASAP as I have created 1 example and have ported
> TinyCC to run and compile with VC 7.1
> The patch for the TCC 0.9.20 will also be generated ASAP to follow through
> with the GNU license requirements that the original TCC has.
>
> Any developers wanting to join the Dev-team for TinyCC-Win32, please email
> me and try to include any work you've done so far, ideas, and previous
> experience.  Please to not try to join if you have no idea what you are
doing.
>
> Notes on progress for this coming release:
>   - only compiles to memory
>   - no bounds checking
>   - no debug data
>   - no lib,dll includes really...  .a and .o includes that are in ELF
> format MIGHT work, since tcclib1.a worked before.
>   - tcclib1.a removed from requirements, since software math isn't exactly
> needed [yet?]
>   - almost a pure port, so some bugs may be present in addition to
> pre-existing bugs ...
>
> For everyone, even/especially non-devs, if you have any patch/code that
> could make any of these features work properly, please get the release and
> send me a patch, or just give me the patch since i have a special
DIFF-type
> program that can work with 3 different file versions.  I hope to see this
> Win32 version flourish and have full .exe, .obj, .lib, .dll file
> generation/include capabilities so that this can be a super-tool for
> script-tool users, since they might know C already, and the compiled form
> of the runnable program is very nice as opposed to interpretted code.
>
>
>
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