Re: [Chicken-users] eliminate the Chicken Windows binary distribution?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Daishi Kato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess it's still useful to keep the Windows binary distribution,
> even if the installation path is fixed. Obviously, it should be noted
> that the distribution is not intended to be real use, but just to try
> Chicken to see how useful it is.
> In that sense, the Windows binary distribution does not have to be
> the latest release.


I am quite opposed to any Windows distribution falling behind any other 
Chicken distribution, whether binary or source.  That would send a clear 
message that Windows support is second fiddle to Unix and not taken 
seriously.

This isn't good reasoning for keeping a Windows binary around.  CMake 
provides excellent build support.  A lot of work was done to make it 
excellent, and we intend to keep it that way.  Offering a crufty binary 
installation instead of an excellent source build makes no sense.  Why 
should a user be exposed to bad Windows support instead of good Windows 
support?  It makes Chicken looks like it has bad Windows support, when 
in fact it has really good support now, if one uses the standard process 
for getting things going.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every