Em 4/3/2011 02:28, William "Chops" Westfield escreveu:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Michael Watterson wrote:
>
>> You somehow got all the source (but no other documentation and no make
>> files) and spend a month trying to analyse  how to build it.
> I was thinking recently that there were certain instances of =20
> proprietary commercial software where releasing the source to open =20
> source could probably set back open source for YEARS trying to figure =20
> out how to make them actually build in any useful form...
>
> BillW


The repository must contain *everything* necessary to build the final
product, except the build tools themselves.
I always keep back-ups of the installers for every version of the build
tools I ever used and keep a note on the source files saying what build
tools and versions were used.

Isaac

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