Hannu Krosing wrote:
Have been watching this ongoing conversation and am in two frames of mind about:Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07:Tom Lane wrote:Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I don't see a strong reason not to stick with good old configure; make; make install. You're already requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full shell environment.Indeed. I think the goal here is to have a port that *runs* in native Windows; but I see no reason not to require Cygwin for *building* it.Agreed. I don't mind Cygwin if we don't have licensing problems with distributing a Win32 binary that used Cygwin to build. I do have a problem with MKS toolkit, which is a commerical purchase. I would like to avoid reliance on that, though Jan said he needed their bash.IIRC mingw tools had win-native (cygwin-less) bash at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
+ There are a lot of people on Win32 that are using MS Visual C or Visual Studio
+ There are a few fairly well established Win32 programming IDE's that are compatible with cygwin/mingw32
The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed there), but the disadvantage is that not just any Win32 user-with-an-interest can download it any try it out. So... that kind of excludes it somewhat (Universities/colleges might have a problem too).
The advantages of having the Win32 port be natively compatible with gcc/cygwin/something is that once it's converted to that toolchain, it might be a lot less maintenance on us, as that's the toolset we use for the Unix builds.
As a thought, the open source Dev-C++ IDE (Win32 and Linux) works with gcc/cygwin/mingw32 and is pretty popular. Just checked it's homepage on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/) and it's download figures are pretty large. Since March 2002 (less than 1 year ago), it's been downloaded about 120,000,000 times. Wow. 120 Million downloads in less than 1 year. That's a pretty popular IDE (16th most popular project on SourceForge)
Anyway, as a thought, my vote would be to make the Win32 port work in with our toolchain or very similar (cygwin/mingw32/etc) if possible, so we don't have to rely on people having Visual C. In developing countries too, it's going to be much easier for people to get a hold of things like Dev-C++ into the future as well.
Hope this provides a useful set of thoughts.
:-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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