Discuss: Base packages for Win32 / Win64 / OS X cross-compilation

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:29:36AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:31:17AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:40:54PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> > > i can risk it!
> > > let's ask fesco!
> > 
> > There is no possible way we can do this before the Fedora 11 features
> > deadline.  Going back through FESCO would take a minimum of two weeks,
> > assuming it went smoothly, which is highly unlikely.  Then we'd have
> > to do full reviews of 31 packages again.
> 
> Given where we are in release process, I think maintaining focus on
> mingw32 only for F11 is the right thing. Then have a new feature for
> F12 'Fedora generalized cross compilers' to re-architect things to
> cope with OS-X / Win64 (and whatever else people care about)

Agreed.

Rich.

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