On 31/05/2010, at 11:13 AM, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> I actually primarily do not care about mac or windows, personally or
> professionally.  Also keep in mind that one of the selling points of
> clojure is that it runs where *Java* runs not mac and windows, I would
> think that in my mind anyway, be a strong contributing point.  Now to
> be honest I am responsible for Macs at work but hopefully less of them
> as time goes by.

This is obviously another input into Luke's decision making. What kind of apps 
does he want to target, what kind of developers, what platforms, with what 
intentions.

> Have you ever heard of DLL HELL?  It is a special case of library path
> issues, they exist every where you have shared libs/DLLS being loaded.

That only happens if you try to share the DLL, which isn't necessary.

> And as a sysadmin I have had LD issues with OSX.

Consumer apps using SWT don't have this problem on OSX.

> your right we should all be using pcbsd much better, http://pcbsd.org/

LOL.

> native integration is not quality, quality is quality native
> integration is look and feel.

which is an essential part of quality from a user's perspective for the two 
consumer desktop platforms.

Antony Blakey
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