[ros-dev] Must Read!!!! Msi.dll and Bison Alert!!!!

[Alex Ionescu]

James Tabor wrote:

> Well, tell that to wine. 8^)
>
> This was a hard call to do. Knowing this team.
>
> Wine is moving away from porting as I can see it. I've written about how
> wine has cross linked third and forth level dlls (apps level). We can not
> port w/o having to include some of their weird programming stuff (put 
> nicely).
> I've tried wines windows builds and w/o some of their dlls you can not 
> use
> them at all. You have to bypass ROS Second level dlls with wines. When 
> you
> try it, it doesn't work.
>
>
> So, it would not hurt to use bison with their code.
>
>
> Snd Point,
> We started this when,,,, 1999 and now soon to be 2005. I'm to old to 
> wait for
> wine to change, so far their not trying very hard.
> James

All great points but I must ask, why should be bend our "rules" in order 
to be able to mingle cleanly with WINE, and why shouldn't they be the 
ones that should also try to be more flexible. From what you're saying 
(I have no personal experience to base this upon), it seems that they 
aren't trying very hard to make sure everything stays easily portable. I 
agree we need wine for the user dlls, but they also need our fixes to be 
easily implementable in their tree.

I think the best solution is for everyone to work together, and to try 
to respect our project's guidelines. If they really need to do stuff 
their own way, we really need to do stuff our own way too. Maybe some 
sort of mega conversion tool could be built or something of the sort. I 
think WINE has gotten really far, but because they are such an old 
project, they are carrying a lot of cruft that needs to cleaned out 
(just like any other project). It would be unsensical to have to import 
such cruft (I'm not referring to Bison, but those x-level DLL messes).

I don't see why the .C code would force everyone to use linux? Why would 
mingw32 not want to build it? Anyways, I restate, I'm against Bison in 
the build system (or any other similar tool) as much as I am for having 
core apps written in script languages. Considering how most of us feel 
about C++ code (imo, shouldn't be used unless it's a necessity), I think 
that starting to import Bison stuff is going to annoy a lot of people, 
judging from the reaction on the ML. I'm sure we'll find a way to 
cooperate, even it means making msi porting a bit harder.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu