On 2012-09-27, at 1:56 AM, Maurizio Martignano <maurizio.martign...@spazioit.com> wrote: > So what are the feasible options? > I believe there are only two (well three) options: > 1. we maintain the Windows code inside Aolserver (I favour this) > 2. we compile Unix only code via the SUA SDK > 3. we forget about Windows and we use real emulation, that is a VM running > Linux > > But how many people are willing to download a VM of 1.5 GB or so just to > test a system?
You might be surprised to hear that #3 and large downloads don't faze a lot of people if it means they get something that works. ActiveState moved to this model with Stackato (a cloud platform - basically Heroku-in-a-box), and we haven't heard concerns about download size[1]. It's a custom linux vm that people can use from any OS (and we have plenty that use it on or from Windows). However, that's just a point that such things exist and are accepted. I for one would vote to keep the Windows support in AOLserver. I don't think it's that hard anymore (having done dev on so many platforms over the years), especially if you leverage the Tcl code base to the fullest extent. What I would recommend is only sticking with an msys-based build system (this means 'configure; make' on Windows). If someone really wants to maintain an MSVC makefile that's fine, but I wouldn't agonize over it. If you look at the latest TEA config files, they enable this cross-platform build portability pretty well. You can still build with MSVC (or mingw-gcc), but you use GNU tools via msys. How people operate on Windows without msys or similar tools is a mystery to me. ;) Jeff [1] while we agonized about cracking through 1G download sizes early on, the other day I saw a kid not think twice about downloading 1.4G on his Xbox just to get a _demo_ of a game. The days of download limits are mostly gone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ aolserver-talk mailing list aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aolserver-talk
