Rich Hall wrote:
Donavan Stanley reportedly babbled:Ok so several of the replies in this thread mention how hard it is for *NIX to
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:13:38 -0500, Donavan Stanley
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Let's put it bluntly: For the most part the developers do not CARE ifActually it's more accurate to say we don't care if it doesn't works
it works for anyone else. If it works for us we're happy.
for non-contributers.
That attitude is exactly why a package becomes an undesirable product. You want people to use your neat product.. you need to offer them something stable. And a piss on you attitude about everyone else does nothing for you or your package and along with the rediculous complexities involved in setting up much of it is one of the reasons that *NIX has had such a tough time making it mainstream on the desktop even though it is more than 30 years old. It HAS to be easy for Joe User or they will not touch it. Those of us who do this for a hobby are willing to deal with it.. but it needs to be easy for the average schmoe who does not have the technical skills to build a CVS bundle. And even for those of use who can do this, a stable is sometimes nice.. I hate to do an update on something that has worked, only to find the latest "updates" trashed everything.
JMHO
become mainstream because of problems with packages. Furthermore, most
of these comments reference how when one gets a package for M$ or OSX it
just installs and works.
Well...that's very easy for them to do, they only have to worry about one processor
type and one machine architecture. Linux, in particular, has to be able to deal
with just about every processor and machine architecture from embedded systems
up to S/390 mainframes. This makes the task of QA testing packages for linux
a formidable task.
We here are the maintainers of LiS (Linux Streams) and everytime we make a
change we have to test it on at least 3 versions of at least 4 distributions of Linux
for x86 architectures. While it is used on S/390's, Sun SPARC stations, and other
machines running Linux, it would be completely impractical for us to test the
package on any and all of the processors and/or architectures available. We
would NEVER be able to release any software.
The developers of Myth have the same problem only worse. It would be
impractical and too time consuming for them to test the package on all of the
different systems people are using. I'm also sure they don't have the finacial resources
to go out a buy a pile of different machines with different video cards, drivers,
etc. on which to test the package.
-- Michael J. Lynch
What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
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