Why is it compiling GMP so hard?

[Fausto Arinos de Almeida Barbuto]

Hi Torbjorn;

    Just to wrap this nice conversation up. We've gone way too
off-topic.

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:48 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:


> We're working on GNU, a free operating system.


    GNU, a free operating system?? Debian, you mean? Sheesh.

    For your information, I'm a Linux (SuSE 9.2-64) user in the home
front,
    and I am using it right now to write this. I'm a Linux enthusiastic
and
    use it since mid-90s (I started with Red Hat 5.0, then moved to
    Conectiva and now I'm a happy SuSE user). I love its robustness,
    stability and user-friendliness. But I am not blind to its
deficiencies
    and flaws. For example, the lack of webcam support (hope you don't
    hate webcam users, too). The lack of cedilla in my keyboard -- I
need
    it to write in my native language -- whilst all other accents work
fine
    (the cedilla used to work in previous versions of SuSE, but not
anymore).
    And, above all, the infamous "dependency hell" that prevented me so
    many times from installing programs that I wanted to install (that
is
    what I meant to say when I mentioned the "Unix/Linux crap"). All
these
    issues are completely, or almost completely, unknown to Windows.


> I think you should be grateful for the pieces you can borrow
> from us.


    "From us" who? There are GNU applications for Windows if I am not
    mistaken.


> Popularity among users of non-free environments doesn't score
> high in my world.


    There is a difference between hating tobacco and hating smokers. ;-)
    Many people use Windows because they have no choice, especially
    in the work front.

    A real free environment and free software champion would try to
    show to as many people as possible how good and useful these free
    stuff can be. Keeping Windows' users at distance won't get this
    job done.


> But we do support GMP on Windows, and thousands of people have
> succeeded installing it.  Your attitude that standard Unix
> commands are "typical Unix/Linux crap" surely will won't help you
> to success here.


    It seems that you took my comment personally, for which I apologize.
    I didn't mean to hurt anyone.

---Fausto


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