open source terminal and scanning

[Brian K. White]

On 10/26/2010 11:29 PM, Fairlight wrote:
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>>
>> And hit "Clone"
>>
>> And it will create directory AljexClient in your %USERHOME% directory
>> with the repo mirrored inside.
>
> Right, but you still need VC++ to actually compile from that, right?
>
>> I think I agree with Marks assessment about maybe git isn't really worth
>> the extra work for a small project like this.
>
> Not to mention it's so...standard.  *cough*  I mean, CVS commands will
> actually work in many cases in SVN.  Sounds like Linus really reinvented
> the wheel, and did it non-standardly.  Wouldn't be the first time.  :)
>
>> I am still checking out the different hosting sites other facilities like
>> parallel hosting of a wiki for documentation, bugtracker, discussion
>> forums, but code.google seems to be pretty good on all those counts.
>
> Are you hung up on "free"?  Reason I ask...  You can lease a really -nice-

Oh we pay for plenty of hosting all over the place, both colo and web.
I run my own virtual servers using LXC but that's a bit shaky still. 
Super efficient and built into the kernel but just still new and 
changing and not 100% reliable.

No the idea was to put the stuff someplace public and as self 
maintaining as possible. The main free repo hosting places have it in 
there interest to keep as much stuff as possible as long as possible and 
they'll certainly do a better job of it than I would. For safety I just 
need to be able to retain a copy of everything and post it to some other 
site if necessary some day.

Not to mention the package may occasionally turn up in searches this way.

> When can you talk to Microsoft about supplying free versions of VC++?  :)
>
> And no, that free Studio thing they were/are giving out doesn't actually
> work.  Didn't for me, anyway.  Got it and tried to compile PuTTY and yTin.
> Neither would compile under it.  It was, in fact, a nightmare of an
> environment under which to work.

You can build all of this using nothing but completely free downloads.
That is how I do it and I specifically avoid as much as possible relying 
on anything that isn't open. I do use the free-as-in-beer ms compiler 
instead of the free-as-in-speech msys gcc for the production builds as 
long as it's an option, but I also do make sure everything still builds 
with gcc once in a while so I'm not really relying on the ms compiler.

I've already included a crude recipe for downloading all necessary parts 
for free in the readme.txt I'll expand on that in the wiki now that it 
exists to fill in some of the hand-wavy details.
... ok done

http://code.google.com/p/aljex-client/wiki/SetupBuildEnvironment

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bkw