On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Tom Kent wrote:
Is this something the community would be in favor of? I know that many of the people on these lists don't use windows and if they do are generally capable of building the windows binaries themselves, however there is a large group out there that prefers to just get the installer for them (like they do for other projects like Qt, wxWidgets, etc).
Thoughts?
While I have not been a MSVC user for a while now: I think it's a good thing for our VC users that binaries are available to them. Is (1) necessary? I was under the impression binaries becoming available a few days after a source release is not uncommon. SourceForge raises the usual concern: Can you trust a Windows executable or DLL that you get from sourceforge.net anymore? Also, how do you cater to users who want variants that you're not providing? i.e. Already you probably have Debug/Release * 32-bit/64-bit * MT/MD/MTd/MDd * LIB/DLL (per 6 compiler versions). What happens if someone wants /Gz or /Gv instead of /Gd etc. Glen