[Development] Reviews needed before android integration in two weeks

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 19:52:22 CET 2013


On 02/06/2013 04:07 AM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jake Thomas Petroules 
> <jake.petroules at petroules.com <mailto:jake.petroules at petroules.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Surely you meant darwin-g++-macx. :)
>
>     I don't think the Android mkspec warrants having Linux in it
>     simply because it's such a radically different system in many
>     ways. Custom C++ library, different executable format, custom
>     packaging tools, custom UI stack, the fact that native apps can't
>     even be run standalone without Java glue (at least before 2.3)...
>
>
> Linux would refer to the kernel just like in case of Maemo. It simply 
> cannot refer to the UI stack, packaging tools, executable format, and 
> what not as there is a good deal of permutation for those.
>
> In addition to the confusion about "linux-android-g++" working only on 
> Linux host: one could say "android-g++" means Android works with any 
> kernel type. :-)

How about: it has only one kernel type and thus adding kernel type to 
the mkspec is pointless.

>
> Laszlo
>
>
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