Re: [Libreoffice] oox/source/drawingml/customshapepresets.cxx is just too much for gcc

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:30 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Flames about C99 being over ten years old already to /dev/null,
> > please. Voluntary technical standards that significant industry
> > participants choose to mostly ignore are mostly worthless.
>
> 'significant industry "particiapnt"' that chose to ignore standard are
> going to be stepped around... hence the mingw effort

So, I have some concern with the direction we are going with this.

Assuming that we will try to ditch MSVC in favor of mingw on Windows,
will we require people hacking on Windows to use mingw exclusively?
Also, does mingw do platform specific optimization as well as MSVC does?
Whatabout debugging tools?  How will one debug LibreOffice on Windows?
I assume using Visual Studio as a debugging tool is out the window (no
pun intended)?

Telling them to switch to Linux is not an option though.  Not everybody
can make the switch, and some (many?) Windows developers want to stay on
Windows as the primary development platform.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc