Noah Kantrowitz kirjoitti:
> On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Scott Bussinger wrote:
> 
>>> Not sure where you got that idea, we place no emphasis on any
>>> particular platform.
>> Well, I did say just "a bit of emphasis". It's not a lot, but it does
>> feel to me like there are more people using Trac under Linux than
>> under Windows. And the options for hosting are either standalone or
>> Apache.
> 
> AFAIK we have at least one core developer running Windows almost  
> exclusively. 

I've been runnin Trac production on windows (from versions 0.8.4 to 
0.9.x) then for various reasons I switched over Linux.

All Trac development, tests etc. I've always done in Windows. Lately I 
managed to get Eclipse + pydev to work with Trac and that makes 
development very convenient.

> t.e.o runs LigHTTPD, as do many popular sites. Other  
> known deployment options include nginx, twisted.web2, CherryPy,  
> paste.httpserver, litespeed. 

> There are probably even more, but I tend  
> to lose count. 

Evil itself: IIS :D

> While we obviously cannot force 3rd-party contributions  
> to be platform-neutral, it is generally encouraged where possible. 

There is only few plugins that have some native dependencies that are 
hard to get working on non-posix platform.

> I  
> will grant you that we generally say "cron" when we mean "generic time- 
> based daemon", but then even a few popular linuxes no longer use cron  
> itself for that ;-) I agree there is a sentiment that Trac is Linux  
> software, and I would certainly like to reverse that whereever  
> possible. 

> Once interesting idea I saw on a ticket a while ago would be  
> trying to get Trac running on IronPython or Jython. 

IronPython would be most interesting one... :D

> Porting Genshi is  
> probably the hardest part of that, but it would allow us to tie in to  
> many Windows shops' existing .NET or J2EE stack. 

I think hardest part might be getting all non-python code to work. 
Specially database drivers and svn bindings...

> Improving our Windows  
> docs (at least bringing them up to the level of the other ones) would  
> also probably help. Any volunteers? :-)

Not yet... Even I should help in that one. It's easy to say that docs 
sucks but I don't want to help :D

But as spoken in other thread 'first time user experience' is not a warm 
welcome. There is too many steps, too many options that you need to 
choose from _before_ you're familiar with Trac. It's really hard to 
determine is Trac "cheap" or "expensive" or even suitable.

Which brings me now idea to run a questionaire about these FTUE issues. 
  Wonder what would be best way to run questionaire where would be asked 
about os/httpd/plugins and how people experienced installation and tryouts.

-- 
Jani Tiainen


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