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Re: windows installation


From: Richard Fillion
Subject: Re: windows installation
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:08:51 -0500

Hrmm... well I sorta feel like a dick now.

Well I suppose I'll try out those binaries then. :)

Richard Fillion
rick@centrix.ca

On Aug 26, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Nicolas Roard wrote:

On 8/26/05, Richard Fillion <rick@centrix.ca> wrote:

Hi,

I've been following GNUstep for a while now (mostly from IRC as 'rhix') but since I code for Cocoa I haven't had much use for GS. Now I'm at work and have a lot of downtime so I thought it'd be fun to install GS at work
and do a bit of code.

As the subject line says... I use windows at work (not by choice, I assure you). Someone on IRC said there were "perfect instructions" to installing GS on windows on the gnustep wiki. I found them no problem, then got to
this line:

 Download gnustep using cvs

I don't know what else to say here except "You've gotta be f'ing shitting me". I'm a proficient coder, and know how to go and fetch stuff off of CVS, that's not the problem. I can technically do that step, but the fact
of the matter is I shouldn't have to.  I refuse to build software for
windows. Same (for the most part) for OS X. It's just not something I do. If someone wants me as a user, they'll provide me the binaries so
that I can install it in a few minutes.

It all comes down to knowing your target. When in rome, do as the romans. Deb packages are created for debian, cause that's what debian users want.


Which is why you can download binaries from the gnustep ftp in
/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows/

...

--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  -Arthur C. Clarke






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