Alex, I primarily work on Windows. I use SVN for my day to day work. I compiled and made Open Source repo Cupcake SDKs available prior to Google for the community (including Windows). I own and run the company behind AndAppStore.
But, I do *not* want to see effort put into supporting Windows and/or switching to SVN because it would detract from progress on the OS. If you really want to see things happen, then start organising people to do it, but don't expect people to start on what would be a major infrastructure change just because you can produce some stats and graphs which you feel show that it might have a beneficial effect on people who may become platform developers when it could have a significant impact on those who are *currently* doing the work and showing their support. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of AlexK Sent: 06 May 2009 13:37 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Petitions to Google Android Team On May 6, 2:44 pm, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > The Android platform already has fairly strong community support, much > stronger than some other OSS projects I've had experience with. > > There is a level of fanatisism amongst VCS supporters, as with a lot > of competing technologies. However this is not the reason why Git is > the chosen VCS for Android. > > Git provides a more flexible workflow pattern so different businesses > can work together more efficiently, it also inverts ownership of the > sourcecode > - it it possible to clone the entire project history and work > offline/away from Google, working to your own push schedule. From a > business point of view, Git is a key technology for avoiding > developers having to sync with Google's workflow. There are other > benefits, but I leave that to you as homework. Subversion mostly provide the same things. > I think many would agree with you on the windows build support > benefits, but you haven't yet explained why you yourself can't make this happen for us. > Are you too busy? Because I'm sure the core Android devs are... > personally I think Windows is the wrong platform for anything but > Windows application development, but I'm just one man. I'd like to do that but I'm afraid I do not have so much free time for that. Or you can sponsor me?! ARM - choose Windows OS as major development environment; Blackberry/RIM - choose Windows OS as major development environment; Nokia/Symbian - choose Windows OS as major development environment; Palm - choose Windows OS as major development environment; All those commercially successful vendors choose Windows OS as a development environment and I can not blame them, because they made right commercial choice. (exception is Palm they are now doing really bad financially). > If you decide to take the project on, be sure to keep people posted on > the dev list, I'm sure your efforts won't be wasted. > > On May 6, 2009 9:58 AM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > All answers I got was about technology, but not about business and > future. Without proper community support vendors will not invest into > Android development. > > GIT vs SVN - is it a philosophy war?! As I said I do not see any good > point that stops from using SVN instead of GIT... distributed nature > cost very low, due to low usage of it. SVN usage is more correct from > market/business side of platform moving forward. > > Also for business will be right to attach Windows developers, because > there quantity and experience are very significant. How much MacOS and > Linux take in OSs market?! less then 10%. So quantity of developer on > those OSs in several time less then on Windows platform. Allocating at > least several percents from Windows developer spool into Android spool > will give greater boost to the Android as a platform. Android can > become a powerful platform only if many developers found that porting > from one mobile platform to another not so hard task. > > Android requires a lot of internal fixes for proper support of many > technologies and Google can continue to keep all this together, but be > more opened to the community means better future for it. > > On May 6, 9:36 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm very familiar with git-sv... > > > On May 5, 2009 4:59 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > subversion migration is an ... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
