[csw-users] please vote on your preferences

[Philip Brown]

Hello valued OpenCSW users :)

A question has come up regarding what the best interface for our
packages would be, in the area of compiling tools, and so I'd like to
ask for your input.
Voting is pretty quick and painless, so please dont let that put you
off; your opinion is important!

The question is around the issue of development tools, that come with
their own wrappers or other interfaces, to compiling and linking
things.

(ie: tools to compile perl modules, apache modules, python/ruby, etc...)

Sometimes, it is necessary for opencsw to "pick one and stick with one
(compiler)". However, in other cases, it is possible to support both
gcc, and cc. So the question then becomes, "how would you prefer that
we do so?"

The two ways we have thought of so far, are:

a) Supply two versions of the front end (or possibly, two versions of
the back-end configuration file), and then allow your site admin to
pick ONE of them to be globally active, via our (alternatives)
mechanism.

b) auto-select flags, based on whether you set your CC environment to
be "gcc" or "cc".

In both cases, some reasonable default will be chosen, if no explicit
selection is made on your end.


Please let us know which way you, our users, would generally prefer!


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