> Is there any reason this isn't included in the Plucker Desktop
> distribution? Why must I have to compile from source to get these tools?
Probably because the desktop should be just that, a desktop.
The other reason is probably that nobody has tried to port the
code over to Windows (it IS "mostly" POSIX clean, but Windows itself isn't
POSIX, unless you add layers like Cygwin on top of it), and provide
pre-compiled Windows executables that would work on all platforms.
That would require having some sort of development environment
(i.e. probably non-free) in Windows to port that code over to. I don't
think we want to require users to have to install Cygwin, just to
"unpluck" Plucker documents. It might be possible to rewrite the code in
Java or Python (I've got a significant portion of it working in Perl,
using some pack/unpack routines), but that again requires more tools to be
installed, or a user who is more on the "Power User" side of things. Most
Windows users are not.
Also, the demand for that is probably so extremely low, for a tool
that less than 1% of the Windows desktop users would actually find useful,
that it just doesn't justify the time required to make it available for
Windows, under those conditions.
...but if you're volunteering, I'm sure others would approve. =)
d.
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