On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave Viner wrote:
> Since I've contributed a bunch of windows-y stuff in recent days, I just > wanted to share my opinion briefly. i think this is a case-in-point... it is really up to the user base to ensure the quality - regardless of the platform. you are saying it - and doing it. i think (i hope) we're all on the same page about this at the moment - if there were sides - the win side would be ahead based upon your 'howto' submissions. i am raising a pint to you as i type. it's all good. if we were all as conscientious, how we parcel out scarce resources would be a non-issue. my experience with xindice1.0 was that it performed better on linux than win. the scripts were better, there were fewer assertions etc. this did not aggrevate me, because 1) i realize that OSS projects are resource-constrained, so if something doesn't work, i need to be prepared to 'put-up or shut-up' to deal with my specific problem. In this regard, i think *this* list has been absolutely friendly to all contributions (not all communities are - i can attest to that) 2) i don't use win for OSS network services if i did use win as a service platform, i would have invested more time in working out the problems (i did actually do a total re-vamp of the DOS batch scripts. in the process i remembered what a dinosaur DOS is, and how many OS limitations exist. DOS has no official 'maintainer', so one must always use only the most primitive assumptions about the builtin/command support) In the interest of (my) shutting up:->, i am 'putting up' a couple of doc revisions. i am attaching documentation.tar of 1) compilation.xml - minor typo fix (thanks to dave for the other chg, you beat me to it...) 2) related.xml - minor addition to solicit users to send links for their xindice-based applications 3) documentation.xml.diffs - diffs log i will also do my best to fill-in the linux "fix-me's" in the documentation already submitted ... so pls standby NOTE: if someone else is already working on this, please post a NOTICE!...and i'll get out another pint to raise to you too while i slave over something else:-) cheers! j
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