On 2003-09-25T23:32-0500, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: ) > I use Autotools only on *NIX, I would expect that the view is different ) > when you look through the Windows. ) Nobody uses autoconf on Windows. On Windows, people use Microsoft ) Installer or InstallShield. Autoconf is exclusively for UNIX variants ) (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, SCO UNIX, AIX, etc.) Pretty wild statement, especially considering the existance of the Cygwin Net Release. As far as I am aware, all packages contained in it are built using an autoconf-based ./configure script. Check out http://cygwin.com/. They use their own customized install agent (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe) for binary releases, which are downloaded as Slackware-style tarballs, and standard source tarballs that are patched when need be for source installs. -- Daniel Reed <n@xxxxxx> http://naim-users.org/nmlorg/ http://naim.n.ml.org/ "I don't believe in making something user friendly just for the sake of being user friendly, though; if you're decreasing the users' available power, you're not really being all that friendly to them." http://site.n.ml.org/download/20030923195458/naim/naim-0.11.6.1.tar.bz2
