[Nevin writes:] > It would be much, much nicer to only ship one version of Unicon for > Windows instead of a Win-specific one and a Cygwin-specific one.
It is my intention to "support", what little I can, every compiler that anyone actually wishes to use to build Unicon sources. The purpose of supporting all comers is to encourage more people to make improvements to the sources. Frank has made many valuable contributions to Icon. So the source distribution will be friendly to a Cygwin port, or a port to pretty much any other OS and C compiler someone contributes a configuration for. It is not my intention to try and produce or support binary distributions on every compiler/platform, I can sort of manage one Windows Unicon binary distribution and have trouble keeping that up to date. Fortunately, many people are pretty successfully using the source distribution, but every aspect of Unicon's packaging needs to be made easier and more bulletproof. I hope, as we evolve, that different volunteers will take over maintaining binary distributions on different platforms; at least, those platforms where binaries are easier to install than it is to build from sources. Whether it is worth someone's while to produce a public binary distribution of Unicon for Cygwin depends on how well it runs (say, faster, more feature complete, or more reliably than the current Mingw32 one, for example?) and how many people run Cygwin or how easy it is to install and use for end users. Clint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
