On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ove Kaaven <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sir Gallantmon skrev: > > I don't think I have seen any distribution include wine-gecko. Fedora > > seems to be in the best position to finally make a wine-gecko package, > > since it now provides a MinGW toolchain. > > Why does *that* put Fedora in the best position? Debian has had a MinGW > toolchain for years, the "building wine-gecko" wiki page even mentions > attempts to use it. Only problem with it is that it's not the newest > version. > > Perhaps if you meant that Fedora also has built a whole bunch of > libraries using mingw and packaged them as rpms, then that *might* give > it an edge. Still won't make me ever use Fedora, though. > Sorry, I think of the word "toolchain" differently I guess. I always considered a toolchain to include both tools and common libraries, as Fedora did. I was aware of the MinGW compiler offered in the Debian package repository, but with no libraries, I considered it useless.
