Re: gEDA: Yet more new code in CVS

[Stefan Petersen <spe-at-NOSPAMstacken_dot_kth_dot_se>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Eduard Moser wrote:

> I just like to notice, that I am one of the 1.

I don't think you're the one and only. I wrote a small article in a
swedish EDA/electronics magazine a couple of months ago and about the onöy
questions I got was:
"Cool, does it work with Windows??"

At that time I said no because I didn't want to put people in cygwin (I've
heard bad things about it), but maybe it't usable??


> For me, one of the great advantages of this software is, that it
> compiles straight on UNIX AND NT. I am using the software with other
> colleagues and not only from one company and some have UNIX and some
> NT. We can use the same libraries and the same guile-scripts (which I
> do like very much).

Is it possible that you can write down a recepie for howto do it with
cygwin?? I would be very glad, because it means that I can point
interested people at it.


> Right now on NT it runs with cygnus and X11, that is ok with me. I
> don't need anything more than that. But if Ales spend time on a native
> port that would be fine with me.

A native port would be nice, but I don't think Ales should or has the
interest to spend time at it. Rather a Windows hacker should fix it. And
then we have the questions about graphics and scripting.


> There is another reason for supporting NT. It turns out, that many
> software for EDA is mutating to NT, some of it is already only
> available under NT. 

I read some articles in some swedish EDA magazine about EDA companies
abandoning NT, because they didn't sell any NT-licenses. They started to
go to Linux for the clustering et al.

But I think it's simpler than that; if you can afford a license, you can
affford "reasonable" computer like Sun or HP.

Regards,
/spe
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