[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available on Windows

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-02-15 23:09-0800 Corey Burger wrote:

> Now, I don't disagree that CMake has had its praises sung. It may, in
> fact, be an excellent build system that may help the whole
> "portability to windows thing". To say that build system will make all
> programs run on Windows is incorrect.

The point I want to emphasize is CMake makes a windows port doable on a time
scale of several months of part-time volunteer time for a complicated
software package like PLplot (with many language bindings and many library
dependencies).  This is a big step forward compared to the previous
situation where autotools did not allow a windows port at all. I think there
are going to be a number of big and positive consequences as a result of
this paradigm shift; on a time scale of roughly a year I expect the computer
landscape should be quite different as a result.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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