Re: WIN32 compilation, the spirit of GNU software.

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 14:09 22.08.02 -0400, Tim Ellis wrote:
>> I hope that we can have peace, and work togeather.
>
>I would encourage you to do whatever work you can to make the plain
>vanilla CVS compile for both Unix and Win32 without one-off tweaks. I for
>one *REALLY* want to be able to say Dia has a Win32 port, and it seems to
>me Cygwin would be the way to go.
>
To me this sounds like pure ignorgance. There is a _native_ win32
port of Dia since (dia/ChangeLog) :

2000-02-06  Alexander Larsson  <alla@lysator.liu.se>

	Win32 port by Hans Breuer <Hans@Breuer.org>

It is based on (gtk+/ChangeLog.pre-2.0)

1999-03-13  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@iki.fi>

Tor's famous _native_ gtk port. All the souces are 
available in gnome cvs.

But feel free to go right ahead to require an *ix emulation
and also an X server to get a restricted version of Dia
to run on win32. Only a real moron may also want to let wine 
run on top of the X server running on top of cygwin ...

BTW: one of the FAQs about the gtk win32 port is it it's 
integration with cygwin. It simply has none because gtk+ is 
ported natively and nowadays glib includes most of the bits 
to make it a real cross platform tookit.

Have fun,
	Hans


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