[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Carsten Möller schrieb:

| Of course I've read your book. And one big thing about
| all this tah stuff is that everyone has different interests
| and If he or she is fit enough could help one day.
| This is no misconception!
| 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?

I believe you completely misunderstood what Frederik said.

However it is too much of a hassle (plus expensive) for us linux guys to
get diverse windows versions for testing the client when the main issue
is not expanding the client base (we do have enough currently, maybe
even more than enough) but getting the best out of what clients we have.
This does not mean we turn back new clients, just that our main efforts
go elsewhere.

It has been said before: If you want it to run well on windows, do it
yourself. That would be similar to how we active guys ourselves came to
this render-project that was originally started by OJW.

And yes it could make sense, to kill off the tiles at home project as a
grass-roots rendering effort, and do it more like the mapnik rendering
in a more controlled environment. Which doesn't mean "elitist club" but
simply that: A more controlled rendering group, still open to anyone,
but with different prerequisites (the current are that you can get the
client to run at all, easy-ish on linux, not as easy on windows)

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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