Daily builds of thrift compiler for windows

["daniel@kreuzhofer.de" <da...@kreuzhofer.de>]

Hi,

I'd like to make a suggestion:

How about making daily builds of the thrift compiler for windows (and other platforms like MacOSX) as the effort to make the compiler run (install cygwin, set everything up, etc...) is much higher than on linux.

The thrift.exe for example could be easily built every day and submitted as a zip file together with the cygwin1.dll as an independent package to give users a quick start in using the thrift generator. I just want to take some barriers down that may hold some people back from using thrift.

Awaiting your comments...

Kind regards

Daniel

Re: Daily builds of thrift compiler for windows

[Michael Greene <mi...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Thrift project is not allowed to distribute cygwin1.dll  
without full source of Cygwin as it is licensed under the GPL.

I agree that the process needs to be easier on Windows.  I was waiting  
for an official release before trying to upload cross-compiled exe's  
myself but I'll try to see if I can get Hudson or something to work  
against trunk.

Michael

On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:49 AM, "daniel@kreuzhofer.de" <daniel@kreuzhofer.de 
 > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a suggestion:
>
> How about making daily builds of the thrift compiler for windows  
> (and other platforms like MacOSX) as the effort to make the compiler  
> run (install cygwin, set everything up, etc...) is much higher than  
> on linux.
>
> The thrift.exe for example could be easily built every day and  
> submitted as a zip file together with the cygwin1.dll as an  
> independent package to give users a quick start in using the thrift  
> generator. I just want to take some barriers down that may hold some  
> people back from using thrift.
>
> Awaiting your comments...
>
> Kind regards
>
> Daniel