Re: gEDA-dev: Wikipedia entry vs. Windows port

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello --

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA
>
> Nice writing.

Thanks!

> About ports on Windows, I would add a link to the following wiki page,
> which I found very useful when I first evaluated gEDA. What about
> adding this at the end of the Platforms/Windows paragraph:
>
> [...] Knowledgeable individuals have been able to build, install, and
> run many of the gEDA applications on Windows systems, noticeably under
> the [[:wikt:Cygwin|Cygwin]] environment <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:cygwin
>  | title = Installing gEDA/gaf on Windows - the Cygwin way }} </ref>.
> However, binary executables for most of the gEDA Suite are not
> distributed by the gEDA Project. However, binary executables for most
> of the gEDA Suite are not distributed by the gEDA Project. [...]

I *do* appreciate your interest and desire to contribute!  Thank you
for working with us!

However, my major goal of the Wikipedia cleanup was to de-emphasize the
Windows platform.  Previously, somebody had created an entire
"Windows" section containing an extended discussion about gEDA,
windows support, and the project's feelings about Windows.  Since
Windows support is *not* a project goal (at least as of now), talking
at great length about Windows is pointless, and might even be bad
publicity.

Therefore, the edits I made had the explicit goal of re-balancing
the exposition about supported platforms, and I tried to cut the text
discussing Windows down to a bare minimum.  The less said, the
better.  Accordingly, although your stuff about running on Cygwin is
helpful, I want to leave it out of the Wikipedia article.

Also, the Wikipedia article should contain mostly meta-information about
gEDA of interest to a casual browser.  Specific support information
about how to install using Cygwin is better put into the gEDA
Project's wiki, which is the right place to put project documentation.
I went ahead and modified our wiki article to include your ideas:

http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:installation#windows_distributions

> Just wanted to give people on this list a chance to express opinions
> before posting it on Wikipedia.

Thank you!  Maybe it's not what you wanted to hear, but now you have
my opinion....  ;-)

> What about adding similar references for other platforms?

Belongs in the project documentation, not on Wikipedia.

Just my $0.02.

Cheers,

Stuart


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