[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> wrote:
> @Aerics:
>
> Here's my real Emil: cmindividual[AT]gmx[DOT]de
> so we could discuss our private Windows problems before posting.

Please, if you're having problems under windows don't just discuss it
privately. If there are problems under wndows there is absolutly no
way they're going to get fixed if the people here don't know about
them.

> @Avarab:
>
> I have to accept the fact that tah is written in
> Perl and not for example in Java which for my taste
> would have been a better cross platform approach.

The number of Unix machines with java installed is less than the
number with perl installed. Sorry. Perl is standard, Java isn't.

> Merging an SVN branch back to the trunk is indeed a big
> effort. But this is not really necessary.
> You just have to make sure that when a trunk has
> a milestone state under Linux, windows users like me
> can test it. If it's ok, it becomes the maintenance branch
> or call it release-branch. It's really just a copy in SVN.

So do it. Only windows users can say whether it's working so only
windows users can make the decision and do the copy. SVN is open,
anyone can get an account and do it. Please make it happen and don't
wait for someone else to do it.

> I don't think it is worth, kicking out small renderers
> and just maintain the big ones or neglect all those
> Windows users out there. Or should this end up in an
> exclusive club here?

It's not neglect, we just can't help you in the way you think. Windows
is so different from any unix-based platform. We know what POSIX is
and any POSIX compliant system will run t at h no problems. Windows is
not POSIX compliant and so needs special fixes only known by people
running windows. So we need people like you telling us the problems
and how to fix them.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/