[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Windows

[Mike Rylander]

On Feb 4, 2008 8:02 PM, Gord Ripley <gripley at trentu.ca> wrote:
> Hi Dan:
>
> Thanks. That answers my original question nicely, and still leaves the door open. Who could ask for more? (for now, at any rate). This is a great list, by the way. Following the posts is like being in on the birth of the Model A or the Wright Flyer.
>

I'd like to think of it more along the lines of SpaceShipOne (
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/xprize_full_coverage.html ), but
thanks! ;)

--miker

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> >>> "Dan Scott" <denials at gmail.com> 04/02/2008 4:58:10 pm >>>
>
> On 04/02/2008, Gord Ripley <gripley at trentu.ca> wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Just curious, and this is probably a silly question, but are there any plans for a port to Windows at some point?
> >
> > Gord
>
> Hi Gord:
>
> It's not a silly question - it has come up a number of times. First,
> just to avoid any confusion, the staff client runs on Windows very
> nicely. So we're only talking about the Evergreen server here :)
>
> I would say that there are no plans by the current developers to port
> the Evergreen server to Windows - not out of any anti-Windows
> sentiment, but strictly out of a matter of priorities. However, as the
> installation and configuration process continues to be refined, it's
> not out of the realm of possibility that "the last mile" would be able
> to be reached on Windows by someone motivated to get there.
>
> Just a few days of effort by someone with autoconf / automake skills
> would certainly go a long way towards that possibility, at the very
> least in a Cygwin environment. At the same time, that effort would
> make it easier to package, install and configure Evergreen on Linux,
> as well as on *BSD, Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, PalmOS -- well, okay, maybe
> not the latter so much :)
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>
>



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