On Wednesday 26 March 2008 06:37, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > The single, most important reason here at my place: > There is no immediately obvious way to install and use it properly in > MS- Win. Without an installer of a readily usable version of pcb and > gschem geda will have a difficult time at places like here where the > majority of computers still runs Microsoft products.
I have said this before, and I will say it again. MS-Windows should be treated on an equal basis with others, like Debian, Slackware, Solaris, HP-UX, Fedora, Net-BSD, OS-X, and others. Programs should be developed in known portable standard mainstream languages, with portability in mind. We do this. A concerned user of the system needing a port should participate in the development process, grabbing every development snapshot, making sure that it works. Then when it is appropriate, make a package that can be easily installed, in the style of the target system. Then continue this process as development continues. gEDA is well supported on Debian because Hamish does that. gEDA is well supported on Fedora because Chitlesh does that. We need someone to step up and do that for MS-Windows. How about you? _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
