On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, xk wrote: > Of course, because your tracker it's written for your own personal use > it's normal to not spend time implementing things you don't need. > > But developers which make software intended to be used by a large > number of users should try to implement things people like even if > they seem stupid to them. I'm thinking at FruityLoops which is the > most popular program for electronic dance music. It's a > tracker/sequencer hybrid which is easy to use and very powerful at the > same time.
This is fair. I know that usually I write software for myself, and sometimes I try to throw in features that would make my software appeal to a larger market. As a hobbyist my hobby is writing code first and making applications/products second. There is too much code I want to write to have enough time to spend a year polishing every app. Personally I see this as the 'flaw' with free software: most of it is code first and application second. And I'm totally ok with that, although it's awkward to read posts from users who expect things to work the other way around. I just don't see the large number of hobbyist programmers becoming product manager hobbyists any time soon, despite how badly the linux userbase wants that. :) -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]