al davis wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009, David C. Kerber wrote: >> Does it really matter why they use any given OS? You still >> need to make it relatively easy for them to use your software >> if you want to grow it market. > > Yes, it does, but not in the way you are thinking. > > There is one reason, only one reason, why gEDA does not run on > Windows. The reason is that nobody has stepped up to do it. > > Free/open-source software is developed on whatever system the > developer wants to use, and distributed in source form in a > manner that is hopefully portable and standards compliant. Most > contributors have a system they develop on, and that's all. We > don't have an array of "other" systems to check portability. > There is no hierarchy in making any one system more important > than any other. In a team, each member chooses his/her own. > > The installable packages are done by someone else. The Debian > package is done by someone (Hamish) who makes Debian packages. > The Fedora package is done by someone (Chitlesh) who makes > Fedora packages. The Gentoo packages is done by someone > (Patrick and Denis) who makes Gentoo packages. The Mac package > is done by ..... do you see where I am leading?? > > So, why is it that nobody has stepped up to do the Windows > package? >
There was a post a while ago by one of the gEDA gurus (Stuart?) that mentioned that there were some hooks in gEDA that would make a successful Window compile difficult, if not impossible. But I am not a SW guys so I can't speak to that. Just FYI. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user