Re: [Planner Dev] Windows Port - Part 2

[Jani tiainen <redetin luukku com>]

lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:

> Jani tiainen wrote:
>
> > Well, since most of us found that current setup for Planner running 
> > with Cygwin and Cygnome isn't really feasible, and out of reach for 
> > ordinary user I researched possibility to make Planner run natively 
> > under Windows.
> >
> > It seems that it's possible to compile Gnome 2.6 packages needed by 
> > Planner under MinGW and after that - Planner itself. Only thing that 
> > really needs rework is GConf interface.
>
>
> That sounds really promising given that the gconf has a near equivelent
> non-GNOME with the Windows registry.... but though Planner is hosted by
> GNOME it shouldn't be under the "Imendio" i.e.
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Imendio\Planner but IMHO (nothing against
> Imendio here just thinking of all GNOME apps), it should be
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNOME\Planner\....
>
> Can we get GNOME to "approve" the entry under 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNOME
> which cross-platform applications like Planner which need to have
> whats curently in gconf inside Windows registry ?
>
> ...or this is already done anyway and I haven't noticed !

AFAIK this is not done. I popped out some references to Win32 version of 
GNOME-VFS (that has also depedencies to GConf) but couldn't find 
anything more. Site that most documents referred doesn't respond.

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Jani Tiainen