Re: [igraph] Stable version of MSVC builds? + Suggestion google groups

[Laurence Muller]

Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Hi Laurence,
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Laurence Muller<address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Hi Gábor & Tamas,
> >
> > 1. MSVC build
> > I was wondering about the status of a 'stable' build that would be usable
> > with MSVC.
> >
> > A while a go, Gábor made a post on the maillist with a working copy of
> > igraph 0.5.2 (
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/igraph-help/2009-03/msg00128.html )
> > Unfortunately the link seems to be dead:
> > http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki.hu/igraph/download/igraph-0.5.2-msvc.zip
> >     
>
> This links seems to work fine for me. Maybe the server was temporarily down.
>
>   
Hmm strange, it seems to work now :), I guess it was down for a minute 
this morning.
> > The source package on the igraph download page doesn't include the required
> > VS project files. Any ideas on how to obtain the package?
> >     
>
> You can always obtain the latest version by checking out the igraph
> source code, doing
>
> ./bootstrap.sh
> ./configure
> make msvc
>
> But we actually do not check currently that it really works with MSVC.
>
>   
This means that I need to do a checkout and build an environment on 
Linux? After that I should copy the directory to my windows box and be 
able to compile the project right?
> > 2. Suggestion: Google groups
> > Would it be possible to mirror the mail list on google groups (For example,
> > OpenSceneGraph is currently using mail-archive, Gmane-archive, Google
> > Groups)? It would make it easier to track multiple maillists without getting
> > flooded in the mailclient.
> >     
>
> OK, I check google groups and/or gmane. As long as there is no spam
> appearing on the list, I am file with these.
>
>   
I'm not sure if Gmane/Mail-archive would improve it, but thanks for 
considering Google Groups!

Kind regards,
- Laurence