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Develop with Microsoft Windows

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

The issue points to Make-based builds, hard-coded temporary-file locations, and path separators; begin by inspecting the build setup and the code that constructs those paths. Done means the project can be built and run on Microsoft Windows with platform-specific locations and separators handled correctly.

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Description

help wanted

Windows users will have a hard time to build and run this project. Reasons:

  • Make is used as build system
  • Some locations depending on the host system (such as the directory for temporary files) are expressed as string literals
  • Some paths do not use separators of the host system
  • …?
Dominant language
Python
Stars
53
Forks
21
Avg merge
1d 4h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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