Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Nobody has stepped forward to do this as a routine job for each new
> release of gEDA on Windows.

Yes, I have.  Peter and I have been working on the details, but I've
been doing automated builds of geda for windows for a while now.  I
just haven't advertised them much because we're still testing and
debugging them.  And PCB has had windows releases in the past with
some regularity anyway, the big problem is that the release relied on
a now-obsolete cygwin feature, so we have to cross-build them
now.

> I don't think there's any tendency to disparage Windows users here.

The geda web site explicitly says that windows users are not
supported.  And there's plenty of history on the mailing list saying
that the "regulars" would rather not have windows users involved.
We've done a poor job of making potential windows users welcome and it
will take quite a bit of work to reverse that.

> There is a tendency to be annoyed with demands that the gEDA project
> create Windows binaries.

There is a tendency to be annoyed with demands for *anything*, but we
do recognize the need for windows support and we *are* working on it.


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