Folks,
On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 18, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Dave Land wrote:
For those who are interested, I used the -dumpstream option of MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3. It built and installed on my 15" Aluminum PowerBook with ease (if only my work projects compiled as easily).
You gotta love open source programmers.
And Macintosh. You really gotta love Macintosh. Because that would not have been possible at all on a Bill Gates box.
Hmmm. Dave and I sit around here all day writing code that runs on both... and Solaris.
In fact, I'll let Dave tell you which OS causes the most headaches in terms of installing open source stuff.
I'm not about to dis Mac OS X, but... we've had no problems at all getting the Python module matplotlib to work on Windows and Solaris, but two engineers have thrown up their hands at trying to get it to work on Mac OS X.
And with all due respect, Warren, I don't think I'd have had any more trouble building MPlayer on Windows than I did on Mac OS X. There are many ways in which Windows sucks, but the simple truth is that most open source software compiles and runs just fine on Windows, because much of it was developed on it.
Dave "bleeds six-color blood" Land
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