[sldev] Better support for the Open Source community

Argent Stonecutter secret.argent at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 08:18:02 PST 2007


On 14-Nov-2007, at 03:47, Matthew Dowd wrote:
> However, my real point is that presumedly someone in LL - namely  
> the person that added the code which required c-ares, must have  
> gone through the same pain/love to get c-ares to compile correctly  
> under Windows. Presumedly, they documented this somewhere for  
> sharing internally, so that every other developer within LL didn't  
> have to spend time working out what tweaks were needed to the  
> downloaded c-ares source to get it to compile into a suitable  
> library for SL. Why isn't that information shared with the OS  
> community?

Someone at LL noted in a previous discussion that they all use copies  
of the same working build environment... they don't each have to pull  
it all together themselves. That's kind of expected, really, in any  
production shop.



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