Re: next release of Lout is approaching (mingw vs cygwin)

[Bruce Horrocks]

KHMan wrote:
> I welcome comments, and for now, I treat the MinGW Lout as a custom port 
> that won't go into mainline. But I am seriously thinking now that 
> pushing Win32 Lout users to Cygwin and end-of-life'ing the MinGW port is 
> the best long term plan.

Sorry for the late reply - I've been away.

I don't really mind the change to Cygwin but I'm not clear what you 
intend to provide. Is it:

1) Lout source only with "Cygwin compatible" make files. [Meaning that 
the end-user has to install Cygwin (including compilers) and build their 
own executable?]

2) Pre-built Lout binary. [Meaning that the end-user has to download and 
install a "run only" Cygwin configuration?]

3) Pre-built Lout binary plus the minimum Cygwin needed to run it. 
[Meaning that the end-user only has a single installer to download and run?]

My preference would be 3 then 2 then 1.

Regards,
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Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, UK