[PLUG-TALK] Open Source Community for Windoze
Larry Brigman
larry.brigman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 05:45:36 UTC 2007
On 7/13/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> > As I work on porting a Windoze app, I am continually reminded of why I
> > like the Linux community. :-/
>
> It's our smiling faces, no doubt.
>
> > Is there an open source community, set of mailing lists, books, websites,
> > FAQs, etc. for open source developers that build standalone non-Cygwin
> > apps for Windows?
>
> Many. The wxPython mail list (see www.wxpython.org) has _many_ winduhs
> developers, and so does the NumPy/SciPy/MatPlotLib group. There are
> PostgreSQL and SQLite developers who are writing for Microsoft's OSes, too.
> I believe that both LyX (typesetting) and GRASS (spatial analyses) have
> winduhs ports that do not require cygwin. But, since I don't use any of
> those in that environment I may well be mistaken.
>
The sharpDevelop project. A GPL IDE project that uses Microsoft's CLR as
the compiler tools.
devx.com open discussion groups for programming but typically windows specific.
Dev-C++ IDE using gcc port to windows called mingw.
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