Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:24:21PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote:
> 
> >  Porting gEDA to Windows just creates another clunky EDA application.
> 
> No, it makes an additional clunky Windows application, lets not insult 
> gEDA. :-)
> 
> Like it or not gEDA and PCB need to run on Windows, even if it is under Cygwin 
> and/or Mingw.  While Windows is certainly more evil that all other platforms, 

I think it should be done under cygwin. Because people will then need to start
cygwini first, which is annoying, so they'll have an incentive to throw Windows
out of a window and start using Linux or BSD.

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