I'm with Dave - it would be acceptable to ship a modified BEAM if it's a short-term measure. It's not great, but better than not having Windows support.
Nick On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 08:35 Dave Cottlehuber <d...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, at 09:21 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, at 08:35 AM, Joan Touzet wrote: > > > I scoured the mailing lists but was unable to find any sort of patch > > > for this, submitted or not. It's certainly not landed in v18.0.x. > > > > > > Perhaps Paul is aware of the patch as a starting place at least? > > Um I should also say that in the distant past, I built & shipped > modified BEAMs, although that was just to fix up patches that had been > accepted but not released. e.g. > http://people.apache.org/~dch/snapshots/1.1.1/ > > So I'm not averse to that if we have a patch that's been submitted > upstream and a reasonable expectation of success. In my experience there > are only a handful of people who have built from source on Windows... > > — > Dave Cottlehuber > d...@apache.org > Sent from my Couch >
