gEDA-dev: FYI: windows build attempt from s.e.design

[John Doty]

Yes, thank you!

On May 29, 2007, at 4:27 PM, al davis wrote:

>
>
> Here's a public "thank you" to the people who make some packages
> we have:
> Werner -- Suse
> Chitlesh -- Fedora
> Hamish -- Debian, Ubuntu
> Dan -- NetBSD
> Others --- Who did I leave out????
> Apple? (exists)

Charles Lepple

> Solaris? (exists)
> Gentoo? (exists)

Denis Dupeyron

>
> MS-windows -- does not.  Somebody please step up.
>
> Job description:  Follow the releases, which should be buildable
> if someone is keeping up with task #1.  Make the packages.
> Keep at it, so it is always up to date. Commitment to the
> entire suite of tools.
>
> Qualification: Regularly uses windows, skilled enough to deal
> with build issues and participate in development.
>
> These two jobs could be done by one person.  Any takers?
>

Hard to find somebody with those qualifications and an interest in  
free EDA, I suppose. Windows developers mostly expect to sell their  
work: most developers who contribute to free software choose a  
friendlier OS. But Peter Clifton seems to slogging through this  
swamp. I wish him luck, it would be handy to collaborate with some  
Windows users I know on some of my design work.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com