Christoph Birk wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, David Fotland wrote:
Not trolling for flames, just expressing an opinion. If someone is not
willing to put in one day effort to port from Linux to Windows, why
should
they expect anyone else to put in one day effort to make Linux
available as
a platform? It seems Linux people are just as chauvinistic as Windows
people :)
Because it's 1 (?) days work for EVERYBODY who has to port, and
not just for one person at the event.
Also, not everybody has a windows computer ...
Although you don't absolutely need a Windows computer to cross compile
for Windows using mingw32 it is very helpful to have it.
I did this without Windows and tested it with wine (a windows emulator)
and it worked with Wine, but not on an actual Windows machine. This
surprised me. I think you still probably need a windows machine in
order to get a valid test, even if it seems to work. In my case I had
to repeatedly try things and send a version back and forth to my tester
person until I got it right - a very ugly situation.
But all of this presents another issue - most of us don't like to be
forced to work in another environment. It really is far more logical
to accommodate the programmers when it is not so difficult to do so and
especially when it requires much less total effort than making several
of them accommodate you because you don't want to be bothered.
This is surely much more likely to produce a smoothly running tournament
than to force some of the players out of their element and requiring
them to cope the best they can.
- Don
Christoph
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