Re: Updating our project ideas

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:27 PM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

On 5 Feb 2014, at 23:05, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:

> This was also the topic of a GSoC last year and some improvement has been made in MXE to streamline compilation with MinGW. However I believe that the installer could be largely improved. For instance, we could provide pre-compiled forge packages, instead of requiring users to compile them.

Also MXE is not really functioning on OSX, that could be a project for this year.

Is it really a goal? When Anirudha was working on it last summer, I had the impression that the main comment about OS X was "why not just do it with MacPort/Fink/...". Maybe I got it wrong.

My point is that it's useless to spend time and effort on MXE+OSX if it's not gonna be used by packagers.

Michael.