> Well, I can understand it not being on the windows side (and no I'm not
> volunteering ;-). Why isn't it on the linux side either?
Because explode/unpluck are not built or shipped by default.
Similar to most Linux applications where the ./contrib directory under the
source tree isn't always built into separate packages and shipped.
> It's not that I couldn't compile the code, I just find it much more
> convenient to have a binary supplied to me.
I tend to take the opposite view, and find that most binaries
pre-built on many Linux distributions, are far inferior to one I could
build myself, with my own optimizations and tailored to my needs and my
hardware. YMMV, of course =)
> (Aside: I use windows primarily since there's a palm conduit for my
> workplace's central Oracle Calendar on the platform, and palm conduit
> support in general is much better on Windows. There is a Calendar
> Client for Linux, but no palm conduit....)
You could help that process along, by providing some sort of
specs, feedback, and testing to make a compatible conduit work in the
non-Windows space.
I for one, had no idea that Oracle had a calendar component. The
reason a conduit probably doesn't exist, is because the Oracle product
line generally isn't "given away", so the incentive for Free Software
developers/authors to pay for a commercial product, just to make a
compatible conduit for its userbase, to get them to use Linux, is probably
microscopically small. What is the motivation? To solve a problem for a
Windows user? There are plenty of existing problems on Linux to solve
first, to be sure.
If I had a spare million dollars or so lying around, I might
consider taking up the task (that is, after I pay off my current debt,
mortgage, and other bills, leaving me with enough to buy the commercial
products that contain these features, hire a team of people to run and
test them, and pay for my own time off necessary to develop the solution
and make things work with them. =)
Seriously though, many things lack in the Free Software/Linux
space, not because they CAN'T be created, but because nobody KNOWS that
they NEED to be created.
d.
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