Douglas Kennedy wrote:
.You are right about the fragility of this development.
A response to the " segmentation error issue " from one of the developers
Dmitry <di...@mail.ru> was and I quote.
"I cant help here, cause I'm not running windows"
That's right. Dmitry does not run Windows. That doesn't mean this is
true for everyone working on this stuff.
Yet In the download web page Dmitry is given credit for the port toWindows
He is given no credit for the port. He merely posted the installers for
someone else. No credit is claimed.
I understand this is a free platform and that we should expect to get what
we paid for. However this is was promoted in Circuit Cellar in an article
about MPS430 and also at the mikrocontroller web site from which it was
downloaded. The article and the website say it is windows compatible
Some will always shoot or impune the messenger or grasp at any convenient
reason for the lack of results. Some will feel that the reporting of a
defect by a user brings with it the obligation for that user to undertake
fixing it. If this is the philosophy of this development group it will have
a chilling effect on the quality of the end product. Perhaps it already has
since the fact is this doesn't at the moment work reliably across Windows.
Name me a package that does run reliably across different versions of
Windows. English Office 97 eventually came with big stickers on the box
saying DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON ANY ASIAN LANGUAGE VERSION OF WINDOWS, as
it scrambled the hard disk when you did. Compared to that, this current
problem seems minor. :-)
I prefer to use Linux. However, I do use mspgcc almost every day on
WinXP, and its trouble free there. It seems solid on other versions of
Windows based on NT, too. Many Win98 and Me machines also run it OK. The
only machine where I have seen problems is a Win98 machine where many
strange things happened, but no segmentation faults. If I can't see the
problem for myself, how do you propose I fix it?
Nobody demands that users help fix problems. If you look through the
archives of this mailing list you will see many fixes and items of new
functionality were added in a day or twp, when a user raised the issue.
Most vendors would ignore you, and a fix might appear in another release
or two. However, you expect us to fix problems we cannot even see.
Regards,
Steve
