[sword-devel] free Windows compiler for SWORD

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Chris Little wrote:

> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Chris Little wrote:
> > 
> >>Linux binaries won't be released; Linux users who don't know how to 
> >>compile for themselves need to learn.  Mac binaries probably won't be 
> >>released either, for the same reason.  We only release Win32 binaries of 
> >>the utils because, for Windows, compilers are non-standard & generally 
> >>expensive.
> > 
> > sword RPM packages are distributed along gnomesword RPM packages on the 
> > gnomesword site.
> 
> Do they include the utilities as well as the library?  In any case, they 
> do not currently include the utlities I mentioned since they are not 
> released yet.  And it nonetheless stands; Linux users who don't know how 
> to compile for themselves need to learn (or move back to Windows).

Installing software is a system adminstrator's job. A user is just using 
what is provided to hime/her. Wether this is done on mac, windows, linux, 
.... does not matter in the end.

Stable utilities will be provided in the packages as their are available.

Hugo.

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