Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

[Joerg <joergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

al davis wrote:
> 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?
> 

There was a post a while ago by one of the gEDA gurus (Stuart?) that 
mentioned that there were some hooks in gEDA that would make a 
successful Window compile difficult, if not impossible. But I am not a 
SW guys so I can't speak to that. Just FYI.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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