JJZolx wrote: > One, there are very few developers on the project, despite > the open source approach.
Open or closed has nothing to do with speed of development. And adding more developers usually slows development efforts. Microsoft claimed to have 5,000 developers on Vista, it came out late, buggy and missing key features. Read Fred Brook's Mythical Man Month for some insight. > Two, they seem to spend a great deal of > their time fixing bugs that keep reappearing. Also, the cross-platform > compatibility issues also appear to be eating them up lately. Cross platform compatibility is very, very hard to do, and gets harder exponentially as features are added. Just testing for compliance is vastly more expensive that you'd think at first guess. Even if you restrict yourself radically, say to Windows 2000 or greater, there are a lot of versions to test, a lot of patch levels, etc. I think that many of those who whine the most don't understand the basic problem. Its hard. And it is the essence of the problem, not an accident. Development is not slow because it is written in Perl, or is open source, or any of usual suspects. It is hard. It is a complex program that does a lot of stuff. Now, I would not want a closed SlimServer, because if a bug bothers me enough, I can fix it myself. But YMMV, IMHO, etc. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
