Re: [RFC] wrc & windres

[Jeff Smith]

> From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" 
> Hi folks,
>
> As we discussed here a few weeks ago, there is good reason
> to have a windres compatible mode for wrc.

<snip>
> That being said, what would it take to (1) keep the current wrc
> behavior, and (2) make it compatible with windres?

Here is an alternative idea for dealing with command-line
incompatibility: create a link 'windres' pointing to 'wrc'.
In the program, we could determine how the program was
invoked and handle the command-line options accordingly.

This should technically work, unless we find some reason
to 'mix' command line options, in which case we we would
have to start 'blending' the two syntaxes.  Please note
that I am not familiar with the command line options of
either program.

<snip>
> The modification will typically be:
> -WINDRES=windres
> +WINDRES=wrc

WINDRES would not have to be changed using this method.

-- Jeff S.

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[RFC] wrc & windres

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On December 5, 2002 10:51 am, Jeff Smith wrote:
> This should technically work, unless we find some reason
> to 'mix' command line options, in which case we we would
> have to start 'blending' the two syntaxes.  Please note
> that I am not familiar with the command line options of
> either program.

If there more many conflicts, I'd agree with you, but ATM
at the moment it looks real simple to just mix the commands
(that is, also support windres commands in wrc).
> <snip>
> > The modification will typically be:
> > -WINDRES=windres
> > +WINDRES=wrc
>
> WINDRES would not have to be changed using this method.

Creating a symlink is orthogonal to this problem. Even if
we mix the commands, we can still create the symlink, but
I don't think it's really necessary. In fact, we shouldn't
probably do it, as windres can be compiled to exists on
Linux also.

[RFC] wrc & windres

[Joerg Mayer]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:51:18AM -0600, Jeff Smith wrote:
> Here is an alternative idea for dealing with command-line
> incompatibility: create a link 'windres' pointing to 'wrc'.
> In the program, we could determine how the program was
> invoked and handle the command-line options accordingly.

I like this hack much better than the previous one :)

Ciao
          Jörg
--
Joerg Mayer                                          
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