Why doesn't someone make a devpack for the libraries tas nee

[Das Bruce]

ds. Stupid cutting off title.

[Tobi]

For VC, it's already there. Dunno where though, guess it is somewhere at FU.

[Dragon45]

Linking to it directroy from Download page would save much hassle and puzzeled IRC and email and forum-goers going "wtf is b00st?"

[jcnossen]

The download page is for users, if someone is interested in development they will go to this forum and are supposed to see the sticky "building spring in Visual Studio" thread.

[AF]

Actualyl I think it'd be better having ti on the svn so people get it without thinking and those using linux know to skip it because of the obvious folder name.

That and a link on the download page

[Tobi]

No don't put it on SVN. It'll only increase the load on the server (make things slower). It will spill bandwidth (hence time) of every linux guy checking out the entire repository. Also, it just doesn't have much to do with spring except that we depend on it.

Most importantly though, subversion is for versioned data, and I highly doubt it's useful for us to version external dependencies. And even if we consider that useful, it doesn't make sense to include it as one big binary file because that messes up versioning even more. In that case, put the sourcecode of the dependencies on SVN.

Just put a batch script on SVN which grabs it from FU or this site. Oh wait, win doesn't have wget by default... Well, just put a link to it in the README (or even better: INSTALL) file, and put that on SVN. A developer ought to read those files before he/she asks questions anyway.

[Das Bruce]

I was actually thinking for mingw.

[Tobi]

Ah, you mean a devpak

Mingw support isn't finished yet (read: no one managed to get it work yet).

You're lucky tho, I started yesterday on making it compile with mingw and while doing that I'm collecting the lib*.a, *.dll and header files in a mingwlibs package, so you can expect full mingw support, including a mingwlibs package, soon.

[Das Bruce]

Ah, you mean a devpak

Is that not what I said.

[SinbadEV]

I got pretty close with mingw/scons... well as far as checking dependencies... meanwhile the friend who was trying to build Spring on my machine was completely ignored by the devs so gave up and so we never bothered making it work...