Re: WIN32 compilation, the spirit of GNU software.

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>  --- Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille@chepelov.org> schrieb: > Le Thu, Aug 22,
> 2002, à 10:08:58PM +0200, James Michael DuPont a
>> écrit:
>> 
>> > Ok, so people do build windows from cvs? Anyone out there who has?
>> 
>> Yes. Someone whom you've disgusted from distributing binaries
>> anymore.
> I mean someone besides hans.
> 
> Has anyone here ever built it? How much time has been wasted from
> people besides myself who want to help?
> 
> What about from scratch,without any dlls?
> did even he ever built it from scratch? 

Why would you ever want to build it from scratch, without any dlls?  We can
hardly be required to provide build scripts for the libraries that Dia
requires.  I don't build GTK from scratch on Linux, why should I?  

>> You misattribute your inability to compile the
>> package
> 
> The lack of the source code of the binaries that are distributed.
> the lack of the non system library source code that is needed to
> produce the exe being distributed with the exe.
> 
>> to an alleged deliberate retention of files (so far you have failed
> 
> never said that.

You're saying it in the very same post.

[Long ranting post deleted]

You're not helping anyone with this.  The things that Hans use to build the
Windows Dia are in CVS, the installer source is at sourceforge, both easily
found from the Dia page.  All you've done so far is make it *more*
difficult for people to get Dia under Windows.  I hope you're happy.

-Lars

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