Re: Basic cross-platfrom program?

[Adam Fedor]

On Jun 9, 2004, at 11:24 AM, David Ayers wrote:
> > I notice from the GNUstep web site that GNUtep under Windows with 
> > CygWin is "unstable", and Solaris 8 isn't even mentioned.  That kind 
> > of makes me believe that I should just stick with straight C, but I'd 
> > like to be told different[ly].  The Cygwin.README found there says 
> > why it's unstable under Cygwin, but it's also almost 2 years old 
> > (September 2002); have things changed since then?
>
> IIRC, there has been quite some work since then, but I'm sure people 
> at discuss-gnustep@ will be able to give you more concrete 
> information.

Cygwin unstable in the sense that there are no active developers that 
work on Cygwin (perhaps one on MingW). It's also unstable in the sense 
that Windows is inherently unstable - e.g. everything works peachy for 
one person, but another person with a slightly different setup will try 
to install it and have exasperating problems and give up in frustration 
:-)

A number of people have said they use it and it works fine though...

I do some work on Solaris 7, which works fine. People with Solaris 8 
have had troubles installing GNUstep, but I don't remember exactly what 
they were. Once it is installed it should work fine. But I'd like 
someone who has Solaris 8 to give me an report so I can update the 
Platform information.