Why is it compiling GMP so hard?

[DUDE man]

So what if someone made it and offered to troubleshoot their own stuff. Then 
it wouldn't be a burden on you, would it? I would think as a software 
developer, especially under GNU, you would be happy for people to write any 
code that is free and out there to help others with whatever project they 
may be working on. I understand your hatred of microsoft and their business 
practises, and I won't argue with you about them. I use both *nix and 
windows. I use windows because I can get the engineering software I need 
easier for windows than I can for *nix (i count BSD's as *nix for the 
record, yes I know they're different blah blah blah).
As far as your installation for cygwin, I used your tutorial about a week 
ago to install gmp on it and it worked just fine. I agree, if you can't read 
a document, leave it alone or ask questions for help. This guy that started 
the question gives me the impression he hasn't worked in *nix environments 
which would tend to make setting up this library a bit difficult. But, as 
you said, that's why there's tutorials on how to do it. Here's one I found 
that was really easy as well.

http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp

Anyway, everyone have a good day/night wherever you may be. And as for that 
beer, in approximately 4 hours i'll be having one of those "free" ($2.50) 
beers.

bye all :)
evan

>From: Torbjorn Granlund <tege at swox.com>
>To: Paul Leyland <paul at leyland.vispa.com>
>CC: gmp-discuss at swox.com
>Subject: Re: Why is it compiling GMP so hard?
>Date: 09 Mar 2005 23:51:32 +0100
>
>Paul Leyland <paul at leyland.vispa.com> writes:
>
>   Face it: installing a high-performance version of GMP on the Windows
>   platform is hard work and, IMO, much harder work than it needs to be.
>
>What is difficult about it?  If you've installed the right tools,
>a plain "configure; make; make check" should work.  At least 
it
>works for other people, or so I have been told.
>
>   [snip]  I was extremely disappointed when, a few months
>   ago, someone offered to do most if not all of the work needed to make
>   GMP easier to install and use on a Windows box only to be told by
>   Torbjorn, in effect, that his offer was unwelcome.  I'll dig the 
email
>   exchange out of the archives if anyone doubts my claim.
>
>I don't recall that specifically, but if somebody offers to write
>new nmakefiles (or project files, or whatever they call it over
>there) then the answer will be "no thanks".  I am not willing 
to
>create such a maintenence burden.
>
>I am actually really fed up with opinions about what I should do
>with my volunteer time.  I don't run Windows.  I don't like
>Windows.  I dislike its quaility, its user interface, its
>performance, its insecurity record.  And I really dislike its
>non-free nature.  And I despise Microsoft's business practices.
>
>I am not going to spend a lot less time on GNU in order to make
>Windows and its non-free IDE more usable for GMP work.
>
>And I will not express any opinions about how others choose to
>spend their volunteer programming efforts.
>
>Respectfully,
>Torbjörn Granlund
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