[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

[Matthias Julius]

Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> 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 t at h 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