Re: Fix bug #144394 and win USD 100

[Mike Dewhirst <miked dewhirst com au>]

Steffen Macke wrote:
> Mike,
>
> > I think you would open a lot of doors to a lot more developers if you
> > could provide a mingw kit so dia could be compiled on Windows without
> > needing Microsoft tools.
>
> I thought those people who know how to operate MinGW also have a copy
> of Linux around to do some development. But you are right, I think that a
> MinGW port would be a good thing. Unfortunately, I guess that only people
> with a lot of experience with these issues like Tor or Hans will be
> able to solve
> the problems. Like you, I gave up on this and bought the MSVC copy...
> BTW: I also had problems with the MSVC compilation at the beginning. But
> things definitely got easier over the last years.
>
> Lars, Hans, what do you think about financing MSVC 6 copies for developers that
> are interested and submit some patches? I got mine through Ebay and we should
> be able to pay these things from the donation account.
>
> > Also, Windows/Mac developers are much more comfortable with Subversion
> > than CVS because TortoiseSVN makes life so easy. No command lines to
>
> I think I can help you with this one: Try TortoiseCVS, which was the father of
> TortoiseSVN, if I understood things correctly:
>
> http://tortoisecvs.sourceforge.net/

Cool!

I'll check that out :)

Thanks

Mike


> But again, I have to agree to you, I prefer Subversion over CVS
> especially when it comes
> to checking in binary files like PNGs and moving them from LINUX to Win32 or
> vice versa.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffen
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