Re: Looking for a maintainer of the Aisleriot installer for Windows

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi;

Le Wed, 06 May 2009 19:42:01 +0200,
Tom Bass <tom bass zoho com> a écrit :
> Christian Persch schrieb:
> > I can't really estimate how much interested there is in
> > Aisleriot-on-Windows; the existing installer .exe is gone from the
> > location linked at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/Windows and 
> > download stats are probably also not available. 
> >   
> is there a chance to put the upcoming new installer online again? Or 
> does someone (me or someone else) has to provide webspace for that?

I think we can host it on
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/ like all the other
Windows stuff that's already there.

> > Still, there at least seems to be some interest in running Gnome
> > programmes on Windows; we recently got better installers for the
> > glib/pango/gtk+/etc platform stack, and a few Gnome apps were
> > ported to Windows, e.g. Gedit. That's why I though I'd ask if
> > anyone was interested in keeping Aisleriot/Windows alive :)
> >
> >   
> Why not porting good things to "other worlds"? :) We will see, how
> much interest the gnome-games get on Windows. The problem is esp. on
> Windows, that you have to in the games market a lot of competitors,
> but I think, the gnome-games will have a solid standing. :)

The other solitaire games I found for windows all seem to be
shareware / payware. So a Free² alternative might still get a few
users :)

> What do you mean with "better installers"? Do they use different ones
> or are they using a different or special way doing things?

Oh, I think they're just more often updated now, are complete, and
bundle-able etc. I recall I read some info on planet.gnome.org, but I
don't remember who posted exactly...

> So let's start rocking the Windows world with gnome-games :)
> 
> @All: Does anyone reading this list who has a profound knowledge in 
> porting stuff from Linux to Windows?

http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/Win32 has some information; and perhaps
asking on the IRC channel of a Gnome project with an active Windows
port (e.g. Gedit) you could get more pointers, and possibly also from
#gtk+ . I'm not sure which mailing list is the appropriate one for this,
however.

Regards,
	Christian