Re: Skencil for Windows packaged

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

I think that we should make Skencil's CVS version buildable on Windows 
before announcing the Windows binary. Thus people can start doing Skencil 
development on Windows immediately. I have created a Distutils setup.py file 
that takes care of building the extensions and creating the windows 
installer. Should we try to get rid of the current non-Distutils setup.py? I 
addition, the rint problem has to be solved somehow.

Using the define for Windows is one solution:
#define rint(i) ( (i-floor(i)<0.5) ? floor(i) : ceil(i) ) 

It is, however, not the best solutions, because it does not conform to
the rint definition, and because i is evaluated twice. 

- Joonas 

Bernhard Reiter writes:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:55:05PM +0200, Joonas Paalasmaa wrote:
> > I compiled Skencil's CVS version on windows and packaged it
> > using Python's distutils. Libart caused some problems so
> > I conpiled without it. The application works quite well.
>
> Cool! 
>
> > Now that we have a development version working on Windows, shouldn't we
> > somehow advertise it on Skencil's web site? 
>
> Yes, we should. 
>
> The fastest way to get this done, 
> is to produce a patch so that Bernhard or myself can directly
> drop it in, when we have a couple of minutes time. 
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2375827&forum_id=4026 
>
> > Skencil might attract a lot of
> > open source developers and even more new users because it works on the
> > almighty Windows.
>
> We just to have to be carefull with the development version
> that people know that sketch in general has a high quality
> and they don't judge it only on this development version. 
>
> 	Bernhard R. 
>
> > Windows installer supporting Start Menu shortcuts and uninstallation can
> > be found at http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/