Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv maintenance

[Guy Gascoigne-Piggford]

Actually that's not necessarily the case.  If you don't use .NET feature 
then you don't have to install the libraries.  The old gnuclient was 
built with VC++ 6.0, but you never had to install the c++ libraries to 
make it work.

That said, I do think that mingw support would be very good.

Guy

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dalton, Barnaby" <address@hidden>
>
> : Visual C++ .NET is far more (C++) standards compliant than MSVC6 so if you
> : have to stick with a Microsoft compiler .NET would be a much better one to
> : choose.
>
> That is of course good, but you have to install a big runtime to be able to
> use the compiled programs. Not all old computers have this runtime.
>
> I believe MinGW is a far better alternative.
>
> - Lennart
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>