Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Now that Gus showed me what to look for, it is installed. Perhaps the
author took it for granted that every system should have it already?
On the other hand, it does take QUITE a bit of effort to test for every
contingency, and most hackers just say "it works on my system - ship it!"
If it was commercial software and it behaved like that, yes you could be
mighty pissed. I wouldn't get so irate at a set of hackers that do their
best.
Uh, no. Sorry. That's not an excuse.
Linux needs to crawl out of its "works for me--tough for you" mentality.
While you can produce some useful stuff with it, you can't move to the
next level until you are willing to start applying some discipline and
some testing/QA.
I don't expect them to test on every system. I find that simply making
a Linux programmer install their program on FreeBSD is generally enough
to drive home my point.
-a
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