[Ecls-list] Windows self-installer

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Marko Kocić <marko.kocic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since we are talking about opinions, I'll add mine. Installer makes sense
> if it includes everything one needs to create programs using ECL, including
> bundled gcc, like for example GHC for windows. If you need separate mingw or
> VS installation besides ECL, installer doesn't add much value over zip.


ECL now ships with a bytecodes compiler and thus it is self-contained, in as
much as the user does not require some C compiler, such as FFI. At some
point, if libffi becomes easily integrated, then ECL might not need the C
compiler at all.

Juanjo

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