Karel Gardas wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Ludovic Court�s wrote: > >> Peter Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> You have to balance cost against usefulness. If 8.3 filenames >>> were the limit on today's windows, the usefulness of sticking >>> to the limit would probably outweigh the cost. >> >> I'd like to point out that this is clearly a political argument --- I >> can't believe that you'd honestly defend such a technical flaw. >> >> Basically, you seem to imply that Windows support is important nowadays >> because Microsoft has (almost) a monopoly; you then deduce that free >> software projects should thus abide by the technical rules set by >> Microsoft, no matter how bit-rotten they are, no matter what >> alternatives exist, etc. >> >> I personally do not support such arguments. > > OK, and what about if some free software developers do need to support > Windows to fulfill their user needs and they decide to use your RCS for > development? > > If you are taking political view into account, then please also think > about more broad picture than just your narrow DRCS view. > > Cheers, > Karel > -- > Karel Gardas [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ObjectSecurity Ltd. http://www.objectsecurity.com >
I think the biggest reason to support windows is simply because without it, you cut out a huge portion of your market share. And by that, I mean even the people who only develop on POSIX platforms, but don't want *their* stuff to be accessible only on POSIX. Sure you cut out windows developers (which you don't really care because they don't fit your philosophy anyway), but then you also cut out people who try to write cross platform stuff. I realize windows support is a pain. The path length is actually a POSIX non-compliance on the part of tla, because Windows tells you their MAX_PATH is 256 characters, and tla just ignores that fact. The bigger support issue is path locking. (You can't delete an open file, or rename over an existing one, etc) The MAX_PATH bug is an issue because tla won't even work on cygwin, which implements much more of POSIX for windows. But if tla just didn't repeat itself so much, it would work just fine. (See my posts in the archive, but basically the longest path is a temporary file while building a revision library, and amounts to repeating the same information about 3 times, (9 if you count repeats of the category name)). John =:->
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