[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

[Carsten Möller]

Matthias Julius schrieb:
> 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
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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