[Pan-users] Windows versions Was: (no subject)

[Duncan]

Edith Gross posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:37:41 +0200:

> Are there any plans of making the latest version of Pan available to the
> MS-Windows world? The link on the Pan web site has always been dead.

See why PAN has the warnings it does about posting without a subject, and
the like?  <g>

Someone who still does MSWormOS might be able to answer this in more
depth (obviously, I make no secret of what I think of it), but from what
I've gathered from other posts, the short form is this...  The gtk+
libraries (dlls on MSWormOS) that PAN used to be built against on that
platform are no longer a continuing project. There are others, but
building against them requires some additional work.
 Some individuals have done so, but I don't believe there's an official
PAN version out with updated instructions on how to install it and its
dependencies.

Looking toward the future, PAN itself is undergoing some dramatic changes
right now, after Charles took a year's break to attend to stuff in "real
life", and has returned.  No public betas of the new product have been
released, however, on Linux either, because it's still changing too
drastically and rapidly for any widespread testing or use.  Some users
have grabbed CVS snapshots and compiled them, and there are indeed some
wonderful changes going on, but that's definitely more work than
installing from a tarball. After things calm down a bit and a beta or two
of the new version has been released for *ix, it's likely a newer MSWormOS
port will be forthcoming as well.  However, that's likely several months
away, I'd guess very late this year, if not into next year.

Until then, yes, newer versions CAN be compiled and installed on MSWormOS,
but it's a lot of work, and even many used to doing such things have had
mixed results in getting it to work.

Again, perhaps someone still working on MSWormOS will be able to help a
bit further.

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