On 10 August 2010 13:11, Martin Helm <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010 19:44:15 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: >> 2010/8/10 Judd Storrs <[email protected]>: >> > 2010/8/10 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]> >> > >> >> I just noticed that there is a packaging request for Debian for >> >> jhandles, and I *did* mean to get around to it. >> >> >> >> Is it impossible to work around the GPL issue? Is there any code that >> >> could be rewritten? >> > >> > [...] it apparently boils down to the fact that Microsoft >> > doesn't ship the C++ standard library as part of a standard Windows >> > install. >> >> Okay... I presume it must be using some JNI? >> >> > Basically, what appears to be necessary is getting these packages to >> > compile/work using the newer mingw port that replaced the MSVC port. >> >> I am a bit confused. Was jhandles Windows-only software? Perhaps I >> should close the Debian packaging request, in that case.
> Jhandles is not windows only. Well, the reason I'm confused is, why would a distribution problem on Windows, due to restrictive licenses like the one that Microsoft's implementation of the C++ stdlib uses, force the author to remove all traces of jhandles from the web, not just for users of Windows? Thanks, - Jordi G. H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
