Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
> I would spend a second on the follwoing thought. Take
> the average user. He fetches scid, starts it and
> nothing works simply cause his distribution does not
> offer Tcl/Tk 8.5. Most likely, these days, he'll not
> fiddle out why it does not work, and just drop the
> project and never come back. Especially, as we're
> talking about a project thats targeted to a _user_ and
> not to a programmer or scientist.
>
> Usability is very important, even for programmers and
> scientists.
It is, of course. But in that group you'd probably find
someone spending an evening to fiddle out "where the hell
the suitalbe screw is located" ;)
I just wanted to stress that someone who "just wants to play
chess" might be more interested in just using the stuff and
not that much in locating a screw named "tcl/tk 8.5 what the
hell that means". Its just another hinderence (until it is
broadly distributed.) Therefore I'd be carefull requireing
the widgets of this set, however nice they look. Maybe I'm
wrong, but...
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