David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> writes: > I don't know if you have checked lately but not many windows users > these days even know what a command line even is. > > It's just plain unreasonable to expect windows users to resort to a > command line in this day and age.
No, I think the attitude of these statements is unreasonable. I also find it staggeringly condescending. Windows users are no less capable of learning how to use the systems they're interested in, nor are they less capable of using cross-platform tools than users of other platforms. > Anyway, windows is just an 'edge-use-case'. So lets not worry. You can't have it both ways; earlier in the same message you argued exactly that Windows *is* somehow special, in that its users are incapable of operating equivalent tools tha the rest of us use. I happen to think that's wrong: that, instead, Windows is a major platform, and its users run the same range of human capability as users of other platforms. No need to special-case Windows users; make available tools that operate in a similar way as the rest of us have. If they want the operating system to work better with others, they can take the same responsibility as the rest of us: pressure their OS vendors to fix the problems, or get involved to work on it themselves. Either way, they don't deserve special treatment just for being Windows users. -- \ “I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at | `\ the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour …” —F. H. Wales, 1936 | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
