Re: what is the best Windows distribution?

[Zhang Weiwu, Beijing]

On 04/19/2011 09:37 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Well, compiling from source *should* be trivial. Any decently 
> maintained application has tarball releases, often also nightly or 
> beta tarballs.

Really? Before I try, I did a bit math to estimate the hours I am going 
to need. Following are my findings in 20 minutes math (by checking 
freebsd port's dependency table)

   * Cynthinue depends on qt widget (!!) and nasd. Image the hell of
     trouble installing these on Windows.
   * aspell, tiff, jpeg, png are the libraries that most applications
     depending on, need to check if they are already available in
     GNUStep-core and MinGW. Some application depend on jbig (MPDCon)
     and mng (Cynthinue).
   * GNUMail depends on cups, portaudio, libau.

This is only a 20 minute investigation. I am trying to get a sense what 
I would end up without a package manager, as I never tried to work 
without package manager before (even the rudimentary Cygwin package 
manager is a must to me).


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