Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 9, 2009, at 11:42 PM, al davis wrote:
>> You keep asking why there are dedicated debian, gentoo and
>> fedora packagers, but none for MSwin. Well, preparing a
>> windows port is nowhere near to the task of preparing it for
>> an OS that is native to the project. So please stop
>> complaining about windows users.
>
> I am not complaining, just responding to those who complain
> about the lack of a windows port.   For it to happen, somebody
> needs to take responsbility for it, stick with it to completion,
> and continue to maintain it for every new release.  It's a lot
> of work.
>
> Apparently, programming for Windows is much more difficult than
> programming for unix.

   I've never seen it, but I'm told that the Windows API is actually  
rather nice.  I suspect it's more a matter of more highly-skilled  
programmers not working with Windows.  At least for the most part.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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