Re: slrn 1.0 [2007-08-25]?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:04:03PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:

>>> can somebody be found to compile a Windows binary?

>> Cygwin should be sufficient and more easy. Native Windows support is
>> not necessary (nor desirable) since Cygwin is available for
>> everybody.

> and everyone knows that cygwin exists, downloads, installs and
> configures it easily,

The whole thing is not small, yes, but it is easy to install.

> and only to use it for slrn? yeah... rrrright.

Possibly other free software may follow :-)

> then again.. do we want to support windows with yet another good
> porgram?  thought so.

I do *not* want that. I do not use Windows, I do not like Windows.

But anybody in the large Windows world may feel free to support and
maintain a native win32 version of slrn. E.g. Markus Lausser never
developed or officially supported a Windows port of lopster,
nevertheless there are Windows versions of lopster circulating (more
than one). That is the big advantage of free software: one
person/group/company is *not* forced to do all the work.




Bernd

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