Hello, I understand your point of view concering contribution and I'm sorry if I sounded rude.
I just think it is weird that Windows users benefit of the new version before mac users that are faithful to Darktable for many years. I also thought that macOS was closer to linux than Windows so easier to port. I might be wrong. Despite of that what are the competencies needed to compile for mac? It is not quite clear to me how technical you have to be to contribute. regards, Laurent 2018-01-14 17:02 GMT+01:00 Pascal Obry <[email protected]>: > Benjamin, > > > If I may interject, > > Sure! > > > there's no reason to be upset at users who do not > > contribute. Not everyone is able to, and that's fine. What's the > > point of a software project without users? > > That's not the point. Take GIMP (it has been discussed recently) there > is more users on Windows and almost no contributor for this platform > and so the port is hard to maintain. > > Soon this will also be true for dt, a lot of Windows users are moving > to dt. Fine. But among them some are certainly computer scientist, > right? What are they doing? Nothing. > > Many users on Linux are not computer scientist, just fine. But at least > a part of the computer scientist using Linux are contributing. > > That's the point, the OP is maybe not computer scientist, but in this > case the message is not welcomed ("I'm waiting"). > > So my message was just to remind Windows users that nothing come from > free, there is hard work and the Windows community must create a group > for the maintenance. > > The risk is that the MacOS or Windows port will be discontinued. We > need more dev for those platforms, that's the reality. > > Regards, > > -- > Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) > > The best way to travel is by means of imagination > > http://www.obry.net > > gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
