2010/11/6 Casper van Donderen : > On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:50:36 +0100, Thomas Friedrichsmeier > wrote: > >> On Saturday 06 November 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote: >>> I'm not sure thats a wise choice. For me as someone who was willing to >>> bring KDevelop to windows and work on that, mingw was always too slow to >>> be usable. It was a magnitude slower than msvc2008 (even the first 4.x >>> releases). So for end-users the compiler doesn't matter, but for people >>> who'd like to use pre-built packages of the development platform (which >>> I think many app-devs would want to use as a start to port their app) >>> the compiler may play quite a bigger role. Having to spend a complete >>> day just for getting my app built with mingw is not going to attract me >>> to help with the kde/windows effort. >> >> I won't insist on a particular default. What I care about is that >> compilers >> can be released independently. And the compiler I'm willing to help with >> for a >> release is MinGW4 32bit. >> >> Still, I think app-devs can be expected to make an informed choice to >> pick >> something other than the default option. So IMO, as long as anybody does >> create a MSVC-based releases in this scenario, it will not make any >> practical >> difference. >> >> And in fact, I think app-devs who care about having a particular >> compiler are >> prime candidates for volunteering to help with a release for that >> compiler. >> >> Regards >> Thomas > > This whole compiler thing is getting old again, I'm amazed that people did > not drop the 'GCC is open, so we should only support that one BS argument'. > > Everybody should take his compiler of choice and maybe make the default > the platform default: > Linux: GCC (maybe in the future LLVM) > Mac: GCC > Windows: MSVC I not agree... GCC is better than MSVC under windows. In my office where we develop RT acquisition softwares, MSVC is not the best one to compile multi-platform code. as IDE, we use Codeblock. GCC work perfectly under windows. Gilles Caulier _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows