> Actually, it seems to me he asked if it was used. What purpose he's > collecting the data for I am not sure. Perhaps it's good to take a step > back, and consider what's best for the whole userbase. I agree there is > room for different opinions. Just wanted you to understand mine. :-)
The reason is to find out what is used. When I get bugreports about bugs that are many years old, I start wondering if anybody has used that feature before. I don't want to spend my time fixing features that nobody needs. I don't want other developers to spend time on that. I don't want the manual for mcserv to be translated into Italian, if not a single user uses it, not just in Italy, but in the whole world. I don't want potential contributors to be scared by the overly complex sources. But I do want them to test their changes. Less unused features means more testing for the code that is actually used. If somebody contributes code that e.g. break the directory tree, I want to be able to say "No, you cannot do that. There are at least 3 users who use directory tree". The Windows issue is a bit trickier, because I cannot ask somebody to install Windows or cross-compiling environment to test his or her changes. Other projects that have Windows ports (Mozilla, Apache) usually rely on contributors from the Windows development community. I don't see such community here, so the last question may seem a bit "rhetoric". If there is nobody to maintain the port, the users won't get it. However, if somebody actually uses the native Windows version, then there is working code outside our tree, and there are potential contributors. Then maybe it makes sense to take this code, as long as it doesn't break anything else. So far, mcserv and the directory tree got no votes. The Windows port and the background operations got 2 votes each. Its interesting because the background code crashes for me (try overwriting a file in the background), but I didn't get a single bugreport about it. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
