"Jonathan Wakely" <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> wrote in message news:20050322174452.GA96438@compsoc.man.ac.uk...
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:18:10PM -0500, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
2. Wave at the moment does require conformant compiler while end ser may want to use it with different one
Why should you have to compile Wave with the non-conformant compiler in order to use wave with it?
Download GCC, build Wave, delete GCC, then use Wave to replace your non-conformant compiler's preprocessor.
This isn't ideal, but it's not impossible and allows Wave to be used on any platform that GCC runs on.
What am I missing? Why should it be a requirement that Wave be compilable with all broken compilers that might want a better CPP ?
It shouldn't. And it was exactly my point. <side> Also I do not see why I need to compile it in a first place. If I follow the logic that all open source tools need to be delivered in a form of source code, then above procedure will include downloading gcc sources and building gcc. All this lead to some ... well inconvenience. </sidenote> Wave is in a different domain. It's primary user do not bother about portability, code clarity, design pattern. That's why we also need to treat it differently. Gennadiy