Markus Schiltknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agreed, for a new user it's a bigger hurdle, if he has to install > other libraries first. However, most package systems cover that pretty > automatically. And reducing the build time by not requiring to build > every library for static inclusion is also great, IMO.
Windows MinGW is an important platform (because of the number of users), and it has essentially no distribution package manager (just a SourceForge site), and no pcre package at the moment. On the other hand, Windows Cygwin is easy to use. On the gripping hand, some people just hate Windows Cygwin. > One can also argue, that if a distribution doesn't ship a library we > need, then it would help monotone if we didn't require it externally. > But not shipping the library is a deficiency of the distribution, not > one of monotone. So why not fix it right there? I'm not clear what it would take to contribute a MinGW pcre package, but that does seem like the right approach. -- -- Stephe _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
