[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available onWindows

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-02-18 13:20-0800 Adam Parkin wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> [...]That home-brew windows build system was extraordinarily
>> limited in results and was difficult to maintain.  Our windows port
>> was a second-class citizen, and our windows developer could get any help
>> to overcome that problem.
>
> It is actually quite remarkable how common of a problem this is with OSS 
> projects developed under Linux, so I hope you're right that CMake can help to 
> alleviate this.  However, while part of the problem is tool-related, I think 
> it's fair to say that another part of the problem is the "well I use Linux, 
> the source is available, so why should *I* port it to Windows?" mentality of 
> many FOSS devs.

I believe the "many" in that last sentence is not correct.  Fundamentally,
free software developers want to spread freedom through porting their apps
to as many platforms as possible.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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