Re: gEDA-dev: Wikipedia entry vs. Windows port

[fricker <fricker-at-NOSPAMpobox_dot_com>]

On Nov 23, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> However, my major goal of the Wikipedia cleanup was to de-emphasize  
> the
> Windows platform.

Understood. Careful not to fall into the other extreme though.

At least for me, using Cygwin has always been a way to fill some holes  
of Windows environment. I often don't have the choice but to work in a  
Windows environment as dictated by my employers/customers. Using  
Cygwin allows me to get (almost) both worlds under the same hood, and  
benefit from efficiency of using some GNU tools and workflows (gEDA/ 
gaf, perl, Makefiles, etc.).

Using VMware or Parallels and an Ubuntu virtual machine by example is  
another way to get such somewhat blended environment. And the latest  
versions of these tools are mature and reliable enough to be  
reasonably usable in day to day work.

My guess is that I am not the only one in such case.

Setting aside everyone's opinion about such or such OS, I thought that  
giving a hint to folks who want to give it a quick try while  
constrained under a certain OS would be quite beneficial, and could  
put the gEDA/gaf project above such OS level argumentation.

>> What about adding similar references for other platforms?
>
> Belongs in the project documentation, not on Wikipedia.

Would a cross-OS section be more appropriate then? I.e. add a note at  
the end of the Platforms section stating that it is always possible to  
use gEDA/gaf in a non native OS environment by using common tools like  
Cygwin (with the link I mentioned), or virtual machines with VMWare  
Fusion (MacOS X) or Player (Windows XP/Vista), Parallels, etc.

_jP


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