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Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:00:02AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:
> >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,
> >it should not get any less treatment than any other platform.
>
> Eh...people are moving away from Windows in droves. Those who stick
> with it will be left behind by the rest of the modern software world,
> so why should gEDA be any different in that regard? Ten years ago I
> may have agreed, but nowadays the use of Windows is shrinking, not
> growing.
Want to run gEDA on Windows? Sorry, never heard of Windows. It must be
somoe toy or something in a niche market. Sorry, we don't support it ;-)
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