Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

[DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>]

> There  is no windows binary to download and no installer to compile from 
> source on a windows machine either.

(1) There is no Solaris binary either, but you claim we should say we
    support that.

(2) PCB *does* include scripts to build under Windows (mingw).  Heck,
    there's a toplevel "win32/" subdirectory in the pcb sources!

Plus, I have a windows binary-installer from Dan.  I think there were
just a few quirks left to iron out, but it seems to work just fine for
me.

> > I'd rather not intentionally put ourselves in the "we're only for Linux"
> > crowd.
> 
> The statement was about the application, not about the people.

I was speaking of gEDA and PCB.  You know PCB runs on Macs too, right?

> > PCB uses mingw - no cygwin, no virtual machine.
> 
> IMHO mingw and cygwin both provide a framework to let non native 
> applications run on windows.

No, mingw does not.  That's the difference between cygwin and mingw -
cygwin provides a runtime, mingw does not.  Mingw programs run right
on the raw Win32 API, just like VC-compiled programs.


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