Re: RFC: Proposal to halt automatic builds of Windows BaseTools executables

[Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>]

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Tim Lewis <tim.lewis@insyde.com> wrote:
> 
> Erik --
> 
> What is the justification? Moving from more immediately usable to less
> immediately usable doesn't seem, on the surface, to be  a good direction.
> Why not go the other direction and pre-build the binaries for the other
> environments?
> 

Tim,

I'm not a big fan of the prebuilt tools. In a production environment it is usually preferable to have source and to NOT check in binaries. Given the other environments have Python by default I don't see the value of pre-building the tools on Unix systems? 

I think the ease of use issue is really a different issue (other than having to install Python).  Most projects you start from the root and type make (nmake). A top level makefile would abstract the building of the tools and the need to setup environment variables. 

Why can't I pull a git repo and do:
$ make OvmfPkgX64

I grant it may be hard to automagically pick the compiler but you can do things like:
$ make OvmfPkgX64 BUILD_FLAGS="-n 1 -t XCODE"

As long as build.py acts like a compiler and the last version of a given flag wins this should be easy to do. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel <edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org> On Behalf Of Bjorge, Erik
> C
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:57 AM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: [edk2] RFC: Proposal to halt automatic builds of Windows BaseTools
> executables
> 
> I would like to propose that the automatic builds of Windows BaseTools
> executables be halted.  This implies there will no longer be updates to the
> edk2-BaseTools-win32 repository.
> 
> With this change, developers using Windows must install Python 2.7.x and
> configure their environment to build C tools  and run python scripts from
> sources.  This matches the development experience for non-Windows
> environments.
> 
> Please respond with comments by 03/23/2018.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Erik
> 
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