RE: autoconf in pure MSVC environment?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> >
> > 'Battle Cry', as far as I'm concerned, is to cajole open source
> > developers into dropping the anti-Windows silliness, and just get on
> > with making the choice of operating system irrelevant.  Yes, it's
> > difficult.  No, I don't expect UNIXen to do the work.  It
> > would be nice,
> > however, if they saw the merit in more universal tools that
> > aid porting.
>
> This has already been done.  The result of the massive effort is
> called "Cygwin".

Succeeded by Mingw to get rid of the Cygwin .dll GPL silliness.  ;-)
Do you see the pattern here?
People will keep going until silliness is eliminated.
The growth curve may be asymptotic, however.  Slowed by diminishing
returns.


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
                          - anonymous entrepreneur