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On 5 Jan 2006, at 9:31 pm, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Keep in mind that every 10 minutes we save you on doing system
administration, typically takes us 8 hours of debugging, fiddling with
cross-compilers and testing. Add to that that Windows by far is our
least favorite platform: I'll go on record saying that the entire
development team actually loathes and despises Windows.
Hear hear! (not that I'm on the development team, I hasten to add) If
you have to use Windows, Linda, and you really don't since you could
install Linux over the top of it on almost any Windows-compatible
hardware you actually control, the best thing to do is to not to use
any Microsoft applications if you can avoid it. Install new web
browsers, editors, everything. I speak from bitter and current
experience as I'm trying to write a web site with css that actually
works on Internet Explorer: it flagrantly mis-implements the web
standards and provides Microsoft-only "specials" to "fix" them.
The Scilab experience is instructive in this case. They spent ages
making a Windows version, then when it eventually just about started to
work, all they got from the Windows community was complaints about
missing functionality (and in contrast to the other communities, no
contributed code, in spite of the allegedly large user-base).
Caltech alumni especially should be aware of this. Tut tut. :)
Nick/.
http://cmt.gla.ac.uk
If you're concerned about user-experience, I recommend you to choose
between any of the following options
- switch over to MacOS
- sponsor the development team for Windows usability work
- volunteer time to help engineer the Windows release
Regards,
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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