Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread George Dahl
I don't have access to windows machines to test and I don't know anything about windows. I can barely use it. Although when my Go bot is complete, I would welcome anyone who wants to port it for me. :)-George On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:29 PM, David Fotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It irks me

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Álvaro Begué
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't own a computer with Windows on it, and that adds significant headache. It's hard to convince friends/work to install cygwin for this kind of purpose. Portability between Linux flavors is not guaranteed. For

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Jason House
On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Álvaro Begué [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't own a computer with Windows on it, and that adds significant headache. It's hard to convince friends/work to install cygwin for this kind

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Álvaro Begué
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Álvaro Begué [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't own a computer with Windows on it, and that adds significant

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
David Fotland wrote: It irks me a little that Linux people refuse to consider porting their programs to Windows :) With cygwin, it's pretty easy to port Linux programs. Since these programs work on CGOS they have a gtp interface, so they don't even need cygwin. Just recompile using gcc and

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
I know how to port to windows.I can help you with this. - Don George Dahl wrote: I don't have access to windows machines to test and I don't know anything about windows. I can barely use it. Although when my Go bot is complete, I would welcome anyone who wants to port it for me.

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
Álvaro Begué wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I don't own a computer with Windows on it, and that adds significant headache. It's hard to convince friends/work to install cygwin for this kind of purpose. Portability between Linux flavors

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Christoph Birk
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, David Fotland wrote: Not trolling for flames, just expressing an opinion. If someone is not willing to put in one day effort to port from Linux to Windows, why should they expect anyone else to put in one day effort to make Linux available as a platform? It seems Linux

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Boon
Seems David instigated a nice little platform war :) Oh, platform discussions are sooo 1990s. Don't you guys use a platform independent language yet? OK, time to duck... Mark ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
Christoph Birk wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, David Fotland wrote: Not trolling for flames, just expressing an opinion. If someone is not willing to put in one day effort to port from Linux to Windows, why should they expect anyone else to put in one day effort to make Linux available as a

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Rémi Coulom
Don Dailey wrote: But all of this presents another issue - most of us don't like to be forced to work in another environment. It really is far more logical to accommodate the programmers when it is not so difficult to do so and especially when it requires much less total effort than making

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
Mark Boon wrote: Seems David instigated a nice little platform war :) Oh, platform discussions are sooo 1990s. Don't you guys use a platform independent language yet? OK, time to duck... I'm not going to throw anything at you.But you should duck anyone in case something I throw at

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Don Dailey
Rémi Coulom wrote: Don Dailey wrote: But all of this presents another issue - most of us don't like to be forced to work in another environment. It really is far more logical to accommodate the programmers when it is not so difficult to do so and especially when it requires much less

RE: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread David Fotland
, 2008 12:54 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] linux and windows Seems David instigated a nice little platform war :) Oh, platform discussions are sooo 1990s. Don't you guys use a platform independent language yet? OK, time to duck... Mark

Re: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread Michael Williams
Ahh, no wonder I have 40 unread messages from today. Thanks, David. :) David Fotland wrote: It irks me a little that Linux people refuse to consider porting their programs to Windows :) With cygwin, it's pretty easy to port Linux programs. Since these programs work on CGOS they have a gtp

RE: [computer-go] linux and windows

2008-07-17 Thread David Fotland
Coulom Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:35 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] linux and windows Don Dailey wrote: But all of this presents another issue - most of us don't like to be forced to work in another environment. It really is far more logical to accommodate