Subject: Re: More psiconv woes
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 12:55:12 CST
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:45:27PM +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Sam TH wrote:
> > It may be that people use MSVC project files to build Abi. However,
> > the "official" way to build abi on Win32 boxes is using Cygwin. And
> > Cygwin definitely supports autoconf.
>
> Sam, this statement makes me wonder.
>
> Cygwin is a *nix-layer for win32, not just a compiler. Are you stating that
> you are personally ripping all support for any platform except
> *nix-lookalikes?! I think that's quite contrary to the mission statement for
> AbiWord!
>
> GNU, GPL, RMS and FSF are all great TLAs, but this doesn't seem right. I see
> this as you're actually proposing to take away rights. Last time I heard
> from RMS he still wanted to maintain "the rights".
>
> I might also add that because my "unofficial" builds of AbiWord I've come
> across, and fixed, severar serious (like in sooner-or-later SEGV serious)
> problems because of my *commercial* Purify. This problems were in XP code.
> If Win32 isn't a supported platform (cygwin *isn't* win32, it's a *nix layer
> between the code and win32) anymore, maybe we should have a discussion about
> if we are *only* to support *nix and their emulators...
>
> I'd really like to know your view on this.
I certainly think that it is very important to support all kinds of
platforms, Unix and non-Unix. I hope no one got the impression that I
have ever not thought that. I've had to defend this position multiple
times to GNOME people and the like, but I have *always* been on the
side of making AbiWord portable to everything humanly possible.
Cygwin is just a method for *building* AbiWord. It was originally
chosen so that the same set of Makefiles could be used to build all
the different platforms. That's all it is, a way to build AbiWord. I
said that it was the official way because it is the way we provide in
the CVS sources.
Just out of curiosity, how do you normally build Abi, with Cygwin or
with your own project files?
sam th
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