From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Brett Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:10:50 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87fx3tjt3r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269245491 2960 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 08:11:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 09:11:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtcjP-0003IH-5g for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtcjO-0008AQ-Jp for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtcjM-00089z-7Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37589 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtcjK-000895-W7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtcjJ-0004Y0-Pr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtcjJ-0004Xg-Jf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtcjE-0003EE-GT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 131.227.8.63 ([131.227.8.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:16 +0100 Original-Received: from peter by 131.227.8.63 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.227.8.63 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KWGAw5XKgFOTcIShOUmApGoWvHs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10065 gmane.lisp.guile.user:7699 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > I've been making gradual progress on MinGW cross building, but I've > reached a point where I'm no longer sure that this is worthwhile. This > email explains why, and invites comments from anyone interested in this > - especially from anyone who is really trying to use Guile on Windows. We get people coming to the gEDA user mailing list on a regular basis saying, "Where can I find a version of gEDA for Windows?" and the Windows builds we've put out have been generally well-received. Since Guile is one of our core dependencies, lack of Windows support in Guile would mean that we wouldn't be able to provide a Windows build at all (we already had massive problems at the start of the Guile 1.8.x series with GMP portability, or lack thereof, and this meant that it took almost three years after 1.8 became the supported stable release for us to be able to stop supporting 1.6). Cygwin isn't an option, unfortunately; we think it's totally reasonable for users to want to use the native windowing system, not to mention the fact that Cygwin is *dog slow*. I imagine that other applications that link libguile would provide similar feedback. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre