Re: Windows Line Endings [WAS Re: [SCM] GNU Libtool branch, master, updated. v2.4.2-273-ge24f183]

On 10/05/2012 10:03 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Apologies for having entirely forgotten about the old thread reviewing
> those patches first time around.
> 
> And thanks for looking into it.  Is there a legal way to get access
> to Windows and the various flavours of gcc and MSVC that libtool users
> care about, without spending hundreds of dollars on software I would
> never use for anything else?  It pretty much sucks that everytime I
> push a well tested (on various Unix varieties) patch, that Windows likes
> to blow up gratuitously.  I don't mind wasting a bit of time checking
> things on Windows, but I really don't want to also waste money on
> Microsoft.

If you are a fan of virtual machines, it is possible to set up qemu-kvm
under Linux to run a default-60-trial of various Windows versions
without having to pay for a license.  Microsoft also has a documented
means of expanding that 60 days into 180 days, which means you can test
Microsoft products at no monetary cost at the expense of reinstalling
your virtual machine twice per year.

Unfortunately, I don't do this often enough myself (my time is more
valuable than babysitting a full OS install twice per year, especially
if I don't spend much time using that OS), so I don't really have a good
link to the current URL for the Microsoft Windows trial versions.  I
also hear that the 'gnome-boxes' project is trying to make it easier to
do this sort of thing (that is, turn it into a gui where you
point-and-click on the request to install a Windows trial version, and
then everything else from downloading the correct iso and installing it
is all automated), but haven't tried that yet.

-- 
Eric Blake   [email protected]    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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