Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From my impressions of the Windows world, non-developers won't touch >> source code anyway -- they will simply use the binary. > > I feel I must dissent.
I am greatly surprised. Do you really believe that Windows users outside an academic environment are proficient in using the compiler? I have never seen a home Windows installation that even contained a compiler, the only exception being ones that belonged to professional C or C++ developers. The very idea that a Windows user might grab source code and compile a package is strange. I don't remember ever seeing a Windows program distributed in source form. > Even today I'm not exactly a developer, I certainly wasn't when I > first placed my greedy hands on wget sources (in order to add a > couple of chars to URL_UNSAFE... back in 98 i think). I just knew > where I could use a compiler and followed instructions. I'd just > like wget still being compilable in an old setup by (growing) > newbies, for the learning value. Maybe something like a small note > in the windows/Readme instructions would be ok, as by the enclosed > patch ? That would be fine with me.
