On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:16 +0100, Patrick Ohnewein wrote: > I had a short talk to nsh on #evince. He was so kind to explain me a > little about the actual situation in the evince project. > > For what I can see there is no ongoing project to port evince to the > win32 platform. Correct. > Porting a gnome app to win32 means porting all libs used by the app. > That can lead to the work to port the whole gnome environment. An > example of a big porting project is the evolution port. Correct as well. (-: > A possibility could be to port just the evince-gtk version. But that > would not be a distribution supported by the main dev team, being it to > different from the mainstream version. > > Why am I looking for a evince port? > > I am involved in a project, where PDF content will be distributed on a > CD containing Free Software for the Microsoft Windows platform. We would > like to include only Free Software no Freeware nor Shareware. At the > moment it seams there is no real alternative to the Acrobat Reader. > There is a xpdf port, but that's no real option for the target. > > I contacted Marco, a local developer who has some experience in porting > gtk apps to win32. He took a short look to it today and reported me, > that he wasn't able to compile evince on win32 using the cygwin > environment and he suspects there is a lot of work to do. > > So my request to the evince team. Would you support a porting project of > evince to win32 and could someone of you give us an esimation of the > work needed to do this? I wouldn't mind seeing a windows port of evince. It'll be a bit tricky in places (the DBus support, for one), but you should be able to get most of the functionality working. I would start by porting poppler to Windows. Since xpdf already has windows support, I would imagine this wouldn't be that hard. Good luck, -Jonathan
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