Re: WIN32 compilation, UML Sequence Diagrams and Inheritance arrows and the spirit of GNU software.

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Mon, Aug 19, 2002, à 09:37:55PM +0200, Hans Breuer a écrit:


> MSVC 5.0 - 7.0 are tested and work. It should be quite simple if
> one reads glib/README.win32

heh :-)

> > I stand corrected. He uses MSVC 5.0. Load the dsw (project file) into MSVC
> > 5.0, and try to compile. 
> There is no dsw file in all of gnome cvs. It's just much cleaner
> to use handwritten makefile.msc as well as nmake. Beside not 
> depending on a specific compiler/ide version this is much more 
> manageable for about 140 gimp plug-ins or about 20 dia modules.

more than agreed (being doing about the same thing with Borland 
cra^Wenvironments).


> > PS: one likely outcome of deliberately pissing off people like you just did 
> > is the removal of Win32 support, plain and simple.
> Please don't do it in the cvs sources yet :)

I sincerely hope you'll reconsider your decision, once things have cooled
down a little. But well, I can't say I'm surprised.

        -- Cyrille

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