[IRCServices] ircservices on windows

[Andrew Church]

     Version 5.0 already has (untested) support for Windows under the
Cygwin environment.  I will not be adding such support to version 4.5.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:24:45PM -0400, Philippe Levesque <p_levesque at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>>>He's bound by the license to release the source as well.  Besides, he
>>>>offered to do as much.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, he can release the source as well, but, the binary are already compiled,
>>>thats my point, nothing can told me it's compiled with the correct source.
>> 
>> 
>> That's the problem with all closed-source software.
>> 
>> To the one who wants to release win32 binaries : please make sure you
>> follow what's restricted by the GPL. The source must be included, for
>> example.
>> Additionnaly, I don't think it's required, but providing detailed
>> instructions on how you compiled the services might help the paranoid
>> people here :)
>> sthing like :
>> - install cygwin
>> - apply this patch
>> etc etc etc :)
>> 
>> I don't use ircservices, but aren't there compile-time options (like
>> IRCD type) you need to take care of ? Wouldn't it be a better idea to
>> only provide docs on how to compile, leaving the compilation as an
>> exercice to the reader ? If Andrew agrees, those docs could be included
>> in ircservices, for example.
>> 
>> lucas
>
>Yes lucas, your points are pretty good.. I have compiled the ircservices 
>on my way, but I didn't think on other people.
>
>So, I will discard the chance of releasing a binary-only version of 
>ircservices, to not give some stupid questions like "why this windows 
>ircservices don't run on unreal" (I compiled it for bahamut, it's one of 
>my favorite ircds).
>
>I will try to talk to Andrew to he release a patch to compile on cygwin 
>(for all who want that).
>
>I want to thank all who wrote here, becose everyone idea is important to me.
>
>
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