[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

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Carsten Möller schrieb:
> Matthias Julius schrieb:
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>> Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> writes:
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>>> 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?
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> Carsten
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For me it doesen`t work.