Re: strawman (Was Re: build systems)



On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 23:05 -0500, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 10:52 PM, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > It would be great to release a suite of GNOME apps for Windows (maybe even
> > OS X) along with our tarballs every six months -- to grow our audience and
> > potential developer pool -- with the least amount of work possible. :-)
<snip>
> * There would probably have to be an easy and somewhat trusted method
> of installing binary packages for Windows. (Winbuntu?)

The lack of package management (or even an half-integrated build system,
a-la jhbuild) on Windows makes it a right pain in the neck to develop
any GTK+ app on Windows.

I tried it with Tor's help at the GUADEC in Stuttgart and never got the
force to finish. Give me something akin to the above and I'll port Totem
to Windows.



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