[Glade-devel] Win32 port of Glade 2.0.1
Damon Chaplin
damon@karuna.uklinux.net
13 Jan 2004 17:11:26 +0000
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 20:21, Dragon Master wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Ivan Wong wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > I have ported 2.0.1 to win32 with a few platform specified problems fixed.
> > It may be still buggy, but it seems OK for my daily use. You can find it
> > here:
> > http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net
>
> Woohoo, yet a third win32 port author. Damon, have you ever considered
> picking one of us poor sods and integrating our patches into CVS? Then we
> could put a stop to this endless proliferation of port patches. It's part
> of the Embrace and Extend tactic GTK+ is using. We Embrace Windows, then
> we give them a widget set that's better than MFC, and then lots of Windows
> programs start using it, and then Microsoft goes bankrupt and is sold off
> in chunks to the highest bidder. <cough> Ok, skipped a few steps there,
> but you get the idea. :)
I did apply some patches from Ishan before the last release, 2.0.1.
If you 3 can come up with some definitive patches for win32 support that
would be great.
It's a bit awkward for me as I don't have all the win32 stuff installed
to test it. Do you all use the same tools, e.g. mingw?
Damon