gEDA-dev: FreeDog meeting minutes (20061206)

[Karl.]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:41:30AM -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> * The Windows port was discussed again.  Ales isn't opposed to creating a 
>   set of native mingw binaries (along with any supporting infrastructure)
>   as long as:
> 
> 	1) There is some sort of barrier to entry to keep the support burden
> 	   manageable.  Something as simple as shipping the binaries in 
> 	   a zip or .bz2 file instead of .exe. 

Zip is no barrier, since it is somewhat transparently supported in 
standard WinXP.   bz2 sounds good to me.

<sarcasm> 
Maybe have a 'registration' dialog too - get them to type their name 
twice - if they manage it the same two times in a row then proceed with 
the install  ;-)
</sarcasm> 

Karl.