I'm a big fan of Xastir, but I have to say I was disappointed with the Win32 install. All of the links to the README.win32 that I could find are broken (pointing to the old Sourceforge CVS server), and even when I found the Wiki there was no mention made of a known problem that keeps the latest Cygwin from working. And of course, the latest binary is way out of date.
Would it really be that difficult for someone with the build environment already set up to just rebuild the executable every time a stable release comes out? For that matter, you ought to be able to set up a cron job to get the latest code from CVS every night and have a development build posted automatically. For a lot of Windows users (those who aren't software developers or sysadmins) who just want to use the program, getting through the Cygwin install is trying enough. Seems like it'd be *less* trouble to make sure they've got a current binary available than to try to support them all in getting it build themselves. Scott N1VG > -----Original Message----- > From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:02 AM > To: Tom Russo > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xastir@xastir.org > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problems > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > This has been covered before, and should probably be added > to README.win32. > > > > There are three approaches: > > 1) find the missing DLLS and install them > > 2) "downgrade" X11 do a version that had them > > 3) build ImageMagick from source so it doesn't require those DLLs. > > > > The problem is that X.org dropped support for Display > PostScript, and the > > ImageMagick build available through Cygwin still tried to > link that in. > > > > The maintainer of the ImageMagick package no longer has > time to update it, > > and so the incompatibility remains. > > Because it's been a while since it was discussed, and I don't run > Cygwin myself, I TOTALLY FORGOT about this issue. Definitely these > sorts of things need to go into some documentation when they occur. > Thanks for doing that Tom! > > -- > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
