Matthias Julius schrieb: > Carsten Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> spaetz schrieb: >>> Thanks for letting us know how to do it properly. If youu pay me >>> and send me a Windows box, I will test patches on Windows before >>> committing. It's not our fault if no windows user seems able or >>> willing to participate and help to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] run smoothly >>> there. They >>> are certainly invited. >>> >> If so, this means you ignore about 90% of all users. That's sad. But I >> don't want to be misunderstood. The job you're doing is great. One >> solution for recurring Windows problems might be a second tah branch. >> sth. like a trunk/branch structure in SVN. So we could maintain a >> stable version until the branch is merged back or becomes the trunk >> again. > > Are really 90% of the clients running on Windows boxes? I would be > surprised if this was the case. > > Anyway, the problem is that most (all?) of the active code > contributors are not running it on Windows and probably don't even > have a Windows box available to thest their code on. This doesn't > mean we ignore you or that we don't care whether the client runs on > Windows or not. It just means that it is difficult for someone who > can not test the code under Windows to come up with solutions for > Windows-specific problems. > > If a Windows-specific problem exists someone with a Windows box needs > to fix it and send a patch or check it in himself. > > Branching/merging could reduce the pain when bugs do sneak in, but > someone needs to maintain that. > > Matthias > > _______________________________________________ > Tilesathome mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
I meant 90% of all possible users, not current tah client users. By the way, is here any Windows-User in this group, who has successfully uploaded tilesets, lately? Carsten _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
