From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Cramer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile and MS-Windows on Major Govt. Project... Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:01:55 -0500 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020628210155.C3696@kiwi.pyrotechnics.com> References: <3D1B1DCD.7090500@bitmead.com> <3D1BC0B9.282F1F21@pacbell.net> <3D1BF96A.1030101@bitmead.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025316284 28818 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2002 02:04:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17O7bQ-0007Uh-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 04:04:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17O7Zp-0000wX-00; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pyro.net ([207.7.10.6] helo=kiwi.pyro.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17O7YY-0000um-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 6509 invoked by uid 8610); 29 Jun 2002 02:01:55 -0000 Original-To: Chris Bitmead Mail-Followup-To: Chris Bitmead , guile-user@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D1BF96A.1030101@bitmead.com>; from mailinglist@bitmead.com on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:51:38PM +1000 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:668 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:668 On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:51:38PM +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote: > For the guile people, I think you're missing a big opportunity to supply > guile pre-built in binary form, especially on Windows where it's harder > to build. (It aint a walk in the park on Linux either). Bundle goops and > gtk into a Windows build with full Linux compatibility and I think you > have a very attractive app. Lots of people, especially governments must > have multi-platform compatibility and it is a shoe in for gnu software. > I will also look at lilypond to see if that helps. You may have a point with Windows, but AFAIK every major Linux distribution comes with Guile already. Of course, they mostly have old versions, but that's another problem... -- Christopher Cramer On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées. -- Victor Hugo _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user