[M3devel] Upgrade dependencies, was: Re: do-cm3.cmd for Windows

[Tony Hosking]

I think Jay already removed the dependency.  Yes?

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On Jul 21, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:

> Quoting jay.krell at cornell.edu:
>
>> Upgrade skips m3core and libm3, builds up to cm3, copies cm3, then
>> clean and build in order from the bottom. You could say it starts  
>> after
>> libm3 or at sysutils, but there is also import-libs. In future if
>> released cm3 can build current m3core and libm3 then just build from
>> the bottom and on up, nothing tricky. Thinking about this now I think
>> we should have just done the trick once and then declared the  
>> resulting
>> cm3 as the baseline, instead of this 'institutionalization' of the
>> 'workaround' that seems to confuse everyone, and leaves compat  
>> hacks in
>> to deal with older releases. I think we should abandon 5.4 as a base
>> before this release so this can be cleaned up.
>
> Jay, there is a subtle dependency between the platforms that are
> contained in cm3 and m3core. You cannot compile a newer m3core with
> a compiler that doesn't support new platforms. At least I am not aware
> that this dependency has been removed, or has it?
>
> Please explain again in case I missed something.
>
> Olaf
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