Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 20:20:03 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA for windows installer
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Hello, Kai-Martin.

IMHO, it would be very nice to have a pointer to this site on the gEDA
download page. Why should it be placed beside the table with links to
distribution packages? Why not inside? As far as I can see, many users
searching for a gEDA build for Windows are thinking that it doesn't
exist at all. It is very difficult to find a version for Windows. Even
the wikipedia has such a fuzzy paragraph:

  Microsoft Windows support is currently not a primary project goal.
  Nonetheless, some programs in the gEDA Suite have built-in hooks for
  Windows support, and those programs will build and run under Windows.
  However, binary executables for most of the gEDA Suite are not
  distributed by the gEDA Project.

I cannot agree with all those sentences. "Not a primary" suggests an
idea that those users aren't important to us. "Will build" frightens a
lot of users away. Why "not distributed" for Windows?  Whose packages
are distributed "by the gEDA project"? Why should wikipedia emphasize
this at all?

I don't use Windows since about ten years but I understand that many
users use it. We should not ignore them. They could be very useful for
the gEDA project, for its development. I believe they are the latent
Linux and gEDA users :)

Regards,
  V.

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