Steffen Macke wrote: > Mike, > >> I think you would open a lot of doors to a lot more developers if you >> could provide a mingw kit so dia could be compiled on Windows without >> needing Microsoft tools. > > I thought those people who know how to operate MinGW also have a copy > of Linux around to do some development. But you are right, I think that a > MinGW port would be a good thing. Unfortunately, I guess that only people > with a lot of experience with these issues like Tor or Hans will be > able to solve > the problems. Like you, I gave up on this and bought the MSVC copy... > BTW: I also had problems with the MSVC compilation at the beginning. But > things definitely got easier over the last years. > > Lars, Hans, what do you think about financing MSVC 6 copies for developers > that > are interested and submit some patches? I got mine through Ebay and we should > be able to pay these things from the donation account. > >> Also, Windows/Mac developers are much more comfortable with Subversion >> than CVS because TortoiseSVN makes life so easy. No command lines to > > I think I can help you with this one: Try TortoiseCVS, which was the father of > TortoiseSVN, if I understood things correctly: > > http://tortoisecvs.sourceforge.net/
Cool! I'll check that out :) Thanks Mike > > But again, I have to agree to you, I prefer Subversion over CVS > especially when it comes > to checking in binary files like PNGs and moving them from LINUX to Win32 or > vice versa. > > Regards, > > Steffen > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > Dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia > > > _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
