On 2014-03-07 18:12, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <rpa...@felyko.com> wrote: >> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davi...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. >>>> >>>> Is this something we want to support? >>> >>> Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the >>> requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap >>> virtualisation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD >>> VirtualBox VM on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd >>> like eventually. To my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should >>> aim to make life easy for whoever does... >> >> I guess I should clarify: I wasn’t talking about cross building in general, >> but specifically on Windows. It’s far easier to setup a case-sensitive file >> system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Windows. > > Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows. If it is > possible to support building on windows, we should try. >
Even well shy of 'building' on windows, I do most of my docs work on windows. I even wrote most of the new code for bsdinstall on a windows machine. Being able to checkout the svn tree and work on it on my existing work station is nice. -- Allan Jude
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