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Re: Introduction

 

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

I will post up some of my setup questions in another thread.

Ben


On 7 March 2013 13:38, Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very welcome, Ben!
>
> As you know, I have Win7+MinGW for making win32 binaries...maybe I'm still
> the only one?
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Dan Cavanagh <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Welcome, Ben!
>>
>>
>> Dan Cavanagh
>> Composer, pianist, educator
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> Subject: [Brewtarget-devs] Introduction
>> From: Ben Werbowyj <ben.werbowyj@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: brewtarget-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC:
>>
>>
>> Hello Brewtarget developers,
>>
>> I thought I'd send around a brief email introducing myself. Hopefully
>> this is an appropriate use of the mailing list.
>>
>> A little background about myself - I am a long time brewer (15+ years)
>> and a "part time" programmer/engineer. I like to tinker and get to the nuts
>> and bolts of a process to understand it (probably the engineer in me). I
>> have used a few different brewing software tools in my time as a brewer,
>> and I feel that Brewtarget is up there with some of the top competitors.
>> Most attractive to me is that it is open source.
>>
>> I've been emailing Philip over the last week or so to get some guidance
>> in setting up my development environment on a Windows 7 PC. At present I
>> have set up with MinGW (V4.4) and Qt4.8.4. I can build the project
>> (somewhat successfully) and test out some minor changes to the code. If
>> anyone else has a MinGW setup with Windows 7 I would like to talk to you
>> about some odd problems I have.
>>
>> I have a couple of ideas of features that I believe would be a good
>> addition to the software which I can expand on in later posts, and I'm
>> happy to put a bit of time into some low priority bugs to get them cleaned
>> up.
>>
>> My knowledge of Qt is limited, but I've been working through the
>> reference documentation and it's very good so hopefully I can pick up what
>> I need to as I investigate the code.
>>
>> Look forward to working with you on the project,
>> Ben
>>
>>
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>
>
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> Philip G. Lee
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