30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
8:03 a.m.
On 3/30/07, Henning Westerholt <henning.westerholt(a)1und1.de> wrote:
On Friday 30 March 2007 12:51, C. Bergström wrote:
The effort could be quite high, you're right. And i don't think it is right
thing to do to port every free software project on the planet to the MS
Windows platform, if they want to use e.g. OpenSER, they should use linux or
a other unix system. :-)
If anybody want to pay a developer for this, then it is another question. But
it is also my opionion that this work should not be done from the core
development team.
Best regards,
Henning
I agree that this could mean quite some effort, that it need not be
directly supported by the core team, but there is a lot of satelite
developers who may do that in their "free time", as a hobby.
I don't agree in the monolithic version of "only linux" ... running on
another platform, being portable, opens a whole new bunch of
oportunities to any project ... For one, in my company, we run
embedded linux AND windows embedded ... but we cannot have the same
proxy on both platforms, so you have to support two software units
... that is work!
Cesc
Just
throwing wild ideas ... but if we moved to autotools (we need to
look for a guru ... I agree, more than autotools is auto-chaos) we
could easily cross-compile ...
And that said, it just comes to mind the chance of cross-compiling
with mingw and have a windows openser, just for the non-linux user and
expand our borders. It may be a cut down version to start with, but
wouldn't it be great?
No. Posix based software was in general never intended to run on
Windows. More often than not the additional effort isn't worth it and
another thing to pull away from core development.
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