ben kuin wrote: > > If yes it seems this has not been a big showstopper to Windows apps > > err what?? On what planet do you live? It must be a nice place :-)
I would say it hasn't been a big problem on Windows because people are still using windows. Furthermore, how many of the programs that Microsoft distrubutes with Windows 7 are written in C#/.NET and how many are written in C++? Furthermore, many of the problems suffered by Windows are not a problem on Unix systems. > COM components ( to encapsulate the abi ) They were always a mistake. COM never made it to Unix. > DLL hell ( never heard of that? com registration) This is a Microsoft specific problem. Unix systems have used versioned shared libraries since at least the mid 1980s. > STL ( taming the abi) The STL should only be problem and compile time. > CORBA ( to talk between incompatible libraries) Another mistake. Never common on Unix. > VC6++, VC7++ incompatibilities I've only ever come across one problem as a result of this, a problem with passing file descriptor across the application/DLL boundary when the application and the DLL were compiled with different versions of the compiler. Again, this is a problem with Microsoft's OS that I have never come across on any of the Unix systems I have used. > If you really want to torture a developer, these is the best toolset > you get. You have to be kidding me. I personally think the Microsoft development tools are completely horrible. > If you want to punish the user with crashing apps and > beautiful error messages ( stuff like: "Error msxml.dll not registered > by regsvr32" then go ahead. How does that have anything to do with using a VM or not. > .NET was already a success before the dotnet-sdk was downloadable. Microsoft was your saviour because Microsoft caused all your problems in the first place. Microsoft keeps calling Unix a legacy platform, but Unix has evolved over time and to people running modern versions of Unix, its Windows that looks like a legacy platform. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
