From: Donald G P. <don...@ni...> - 2012-12-07 14:46:03
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>> If the nmake crowd can live with fragile warnings not to build/test >> in paths with spaces, I'm not going to more effort to overrule that. > I can live with this. Ok, I was unaware that this is a documented and accepted limitation of the nmake builds. Apologies for not having that cultural awareness. I've heard it said that the surest way to produce stress is to demand responsibility without conferring authority. That's how I feel with the whole nmake business. I'm expected to make a Tcl release that has nmake builds working, but I'm unable to test that myself, and only minimally able to contribute to the task. I don't feel I have the power to command anybody to do it either. (hmmm... maybe now Jos as part of TCT hazing?) To make matters worse, there's a clear expectation that the bundled packages have nmake builds working too. And that's more than a blind maintenance task. That's adding something which hasn't been there before at all. And something which the upstreams have no interest in. So I'm grateful to the few interested souls who've made sure we make progress and deliver something. And forgive me when I get frustrated when I see those folks appear to give up and dump the problem back on me. Hey this is getting done for you, you know? I am not seriously considering actually disposing of the nmake system. That was not a plan, that was an expression of how I feel. All that said, I think the nmake improvements are in a state to put out RC3 and see what more testing can tell us. Hopefully soon, if we can get Bug 3588687 to come to a resolution. -- | Don Porter Applied and Computational Mathematics Division | | don...@ni... Information Technology Laboratory | | http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST | |______________________________________________________________________| |