Ticket #120 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Windows install broken

Reported by: balister Assigned to: cdietric
Priority: major Milestone: Release 0.8.0
Component: ossiecf Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Windows support is bit rotted. The Makefile.am files call for files used for windows support that no longer exist in the framework. r5875 is a minimal set of fixes for tarball generation via make dist-gzip.

This ticket proposed removing all files related to windows compilation until a maintainer for them is found.

Change History

01/30/08 13:54:58 changed by bhilburn

  • summary deleted.

I didn't realize we were even considering supporting Windows at this point. No one has done any work on it in years.

I don't think it makes any sense to pretend that we support OSSIE on Windows. If someone wants to port the most recent version of OSSIE to Windows, then that's something else. But for now, I don't think we should worry about OSSIE not working on Windows. If anything, we should clean out whatever vestigial code remains from when it did install on Windows.

01/30/08 13:55:37 changed by bhilburn

  • summary set to Windows install broken.

I didn't mean to delete the summary in my last comment. Not sure how that happened.

01/30/08 14:51:43 changed by balister

I'm all for removing anything related to windows compilation. Much of it only makes the source harder to read then ever before. Please, make a decision on this ticket. It will be easier to add the bits needed for windows back, then to de-bitrot the existing windows support as that is based on Visual C++ from several generations ago.

01/31/08 12:57:57 changed by jgaeddert

I agree that the code is confusing being muddled with DOTNET macros and pragma warning disables. It's probably better to clean it up now and then later, if we want to try to support Windows, plan it out and start over.

01/31/08 13:53:48 changed by balister

When I have my head in files, I am going to start removing old windows code.

02/08/08 14:57:51 changed by bhilburn

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

I'm going to close this ticket. We are removing any vestigial Windows support, not fixing it.