17-Feb-03 at 10:09, Cody Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Why not make a release of it? The wider the user range, the more popular. > If nobody will take any interest, so be it.
If only it were that simple. Usually, releasing something (as a binary) for Windows means BUYING a compiler from Micro$oft or Borland (if they indeed still exist) and "porting" the application to use all the wierd and wonderful system calls that the Win32 OS uses. Mailman may be a bit of an exception since it's mostly in Python, but it uses some C calls here and there IIRC. Now, if someone has a copy of VisualC, wants to get it all working nicely, and put it "out there", and cover the issue of getting it to integrate with an MTA or really getting the now built-in MTA (again, I think this is right) then it might work on Windows. But you'd STILL be better off running it on Linux/FreeBSD because that's where it's originally "native", and I can only assume that Open Source is the general philosophy of most list members. Maybe you're not understanding where most Open Source people (programmers, developers, users, sysadmins) are coming from. http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000382.html There are loads of articles like this, try: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=109 Regards, -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folding@home no log script yet...] UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie [Linux user #170823 http://counter.li.org. Home cooked signature rotator.] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
