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[David J. Ruck]

On 30 Nov 2007 John Tytgat <John.Tytgat at aaug.net> wrote:
> Being the person who spend the last year most of his spare time on getting
> GCCSDK 4 in shape both as cross-compiler and native RISC OS version, *and*
> getting the first pre-release out on RISC OS *and* actually having done
> the OSLib ELF conversion, I can only suggest it once more to you : feel
> free to spend your own free time on the things you find important.  I'm
> more than happy to commit your fixes and test them out in an cross-compiler
> environment as that won't take much time.  On the contrary RISC OS builds
> of OSLib do take significantly more time.

> We had this discussion before : I don't think I made changes which
> fundamentally prevent RISC OS builds, so feel free to get it back in shape.

Do you really think that given all the things a developer could be 
doing instead, they are going to be encouraged to carry on supporting 
this plaform, if before they can write a RISC OS application they have 
to spend a considerable time working out how to build the compiler so 
it runs under RISC OS?

I'm afraid this only serves to marginalise and devalue your valuable 
work, as the vast majority of RISC OS developers do so on RISC OS. 
Once the compiler only runs on Linux, its only going to be used by 
those working on large builds such as unix ports and NetSurf. The rest 
of us will be stuck with an old version, which only serves to remind 
us of the sound of nails being hammered in to confins.

Anyway lets take this to csa.programmer if there is anything more ad 
add.

Cheers
---Dave

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