[vlc-devel] commit: contrib: Remove the TOOLS hack for darwin. (Pierre d'Herbemont )

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Wed Nov 3 11:01:38 CET 2010


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:08:21AM +0100, Rafaël Carré wrote :
> Contribs are not meant to be a perfection of Makefile rules but a quick
> way to have libraries be built for win32 and osx.
I disagree...

> They might be used for other platforms but the first goal is windows
> and osx.
No, any stupid platform is included (the ones that don't have dependencies)

> So "The correct way" is whatever can build these libs for win32/osx on
> existing systems, and 95% of these systems can be assumed to be altair
> and jones.
The correct way is the best one.

> contribs is a big hack so the least thing we can do is keep it simple
> as possible so it can be quickly hacked.
Is there any way to make it better?

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