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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