Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[al davis <ad252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, David C. Kerber wrote:
> Does it really matter why they use any given OS?  You still
> need to make it relatively easy for them to use your software
> if you want to grow it market.

Yes, it does, but not in the way you are thinking.

There is one reason, only one reason, why gEDA does not run on 
Windows.  The reason is that nobody has stepped up to do it.

Free/open-source software is developed on whatever system the 
developer wants to use, and distributed in source form in a 
manner that is hopefully portable and standards compliant.  Most 
contributors have a system they develop on, and that's all.  We 
don't have an array of "other" systems to check portability.  
There is no hierarchy in making any one system more important 
than any other.  In a team, each member chooses his/her own.

The installable packages are done by someone else.  The Debian 
package is done by someone (Hamish) who makes Debian packages.  
The Fedora package is done by someone (Chitlesh) who makes 
Fedora packages.  The Gentoo packages is done by someone 
(Patrick and Denis) who makes Gentoo packages.  The Mac package 
is done by  .....    do you see where I am leading??

So, why is it that nobody has stepped up to do the Windows 
package?



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