ModelCitizen;284489 Wrote: > Judging by the above statements about tarballs, dependencies, threaded > perl versions etc etc supporting Linux looks like a right nightmare. If > I was Logitech I'd stick to Windows (but not Vista of course). >
Hmm. Never heard of DLL hell, eh? Before you get too smug about how easy it is to provide software for Windows you might want to have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dll_hell. If you've never installed software on Windows only to have other software break as a result, then you cannot have done much with Windows. There are library dependencies there too, just less variation in installs (but Linux/UNIX has always handled multiple library versions better). You might also want to look at the somewhat difficult history of providing Perl on Windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Windows. Finally, a "tar ball" is just an archive--i.e., a zip file. Never downloaded a zip file that you had to extract a program from? Again, nothing really different here, except names and formats. Ultimately more an issue of whether it is worth training support personnel. -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45372 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
