On Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Fringe Ryder wrote: > And yet I spent probably five hours trying to get an MSW dev > environment that would allow me to build Plucker
That you have a problem with setting up the cygwin tools et.al. is not a *Plucker* problem. > Part of this is due to a stunning lack of project setup documentation, I think you have misunderstood what Free Software is all about. If something is "missing", then you fix it and share you changes so that no one else has to run into the same problems. What you don't do is gripe about it. > But it's also because there is dependency upon dependancy, such as > for autoconfig which in turn requires perl.... It's not our problem that you decided to use an OS that *doesn't* come loaded with whatever development tool/language you can ask for (and for free:) > Correct me if I'm wrong but there's actually very little C++ in > the Plucker project... And that is bad?!? > the Exploder/UnPlucker are C++, C not C++. > Linux users are bang-in, This project started as an AvantGo replacement for Linux users, so it shouldn't really be such a big surprise that it works best when you use Linux for your development. Linux/Unix is a superior system for development (IMO). It's not a requirement, though. Robert has helped out with viewer development, too, and he (I think) is using Windows. > Am I understanding all of this? Mischaracterizing any of it? I don't know; did you try to make a point in this ramble or where you just complaining that we don't cater enough for Windows developers ;-) Take this in whatever way you like, but I'm a bit tired of all these Windows cry babies complaining how bad we are for not making it "easy" for them to use/build Plucker. If there is a problem, then *you* fix it (without breaking it for the existing users/developers) and let us know how we can improve the project for *all* users/developers. /Mike _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
