Re: Win32 Installer was: Re: Win32 build guide location?

[Tom Koelman]

"Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de> writes:

> On 09.04.2003 08:21:05 Tom Koelman wrote:
>>Willem Rein Oudshoorn <woudshoo@xs4all.nl> writes:
>>
>>> There should be somewhere a windows installer 
>>
>>It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/windows/
>>and is called Install-GNUstep-Development-Environment-0.4.1.exe. It
>>contains make and base from the 1.6.0 freeze branch and libobjc from
>>the main branch, taken from CVS at the 24th of Februari 2003.
>
> Great stuff, worked like a charm here on a W2k box at work even without 
> admin rights. This is the kind of stuff we need to get the average John Q 
> Public Windows Developer to try GNUstep: Easy troublefree installation. 
> This makes the first step to GNUstep a lot simpler.

Thanks, and I agree.

> But I wonder why this is so hidden. It should have a prominent place on 
> the downloads page, especially since building GNUstep on Windows is not 
> such an easy task as you can tell from the subsequent requests for a Win32 
> build guide (I never tried to build it on my own for Win32 because the 
> build process and requirements appeared to complicated for me).

I still consider it experimental beacuse it has some known
issues. Take a look at the original announcement at 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.devel/1738 to see
them.

Tom