On 5 August 2015 at 22:46, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> I don't have an answer about tooling with respect to the need for > widely-available tools. If the concern is for ability to use free tools on > Windows, but there are alternatives to requiring an expensive commercial > IDE for users while still taking advantage of the Microsoft development > tool chain. > > The Visual Studio Community Edition 2013 is free to use for open-source > projects. I would recommend it simply because it is available for > development on and for Windows and should work for Corinthia (although I > haven't tried your builds there). This works if you are > creating/publishing Visual Studio projects. > > It might also be desirable to use Visual Studio Community Edition 2015, > which is now released and available. > I was not asking so much about which tools would be desirable to use. I want to make sure I have not overlooked a policy or rule. rgds jan i. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:04 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: third party tooling. > > Hi. > > We have recently (again) on different list discussed third party libraries. > Some strong > opinions have been aired. > > So we have rules/policies for libraries but how about tooling, I have not > been able to > find any "do not do this" page. > > I am about to prepare a release for Corinthia, which is a C99 project. I > would like to > write in the release note, that on ms-Windows we test with Visual Studio > 2013, simply > because that is a fact. > > But Visual Studio 2013 is not a free version so which rules/policies will I > break by not > testing with e.g. GCC on windows ? > (I hope none, but better ask than have to cut a new release candidate). > > rgds > jan i. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
