On 3/5/07, Jacob Smullyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:25:06PM -0300, Sidnei da Silva wrote: > > Well, it is something that needs to be considered though. We can't > > just close one eye and pretend that win32 does not exist. > > Yes, I prefer to close two eyes!
I seriously hope you are kidding. Unfortunately that's not possible. A lot of people, specially when evaluating open-source projects, have their first contact with the software through the Windows platform. To quote some numbers, the Plone Installer for Windows has roughly 3x more downloads than any of the second most download package [1]. Now, I see clearly two options for open-source projects: have a Windows story and increase your downloads by X%, where X can be a number between 50-300 *wink*, or not have a Windows story and relying on the *nix crowd to be the sole consumers of your software. When you talk to a big organization that is already deploying their applications on the Windows platform what story you want to tell them? 'Oh, and by the way, all your investment on Windows software, you will have to throw all that away if you want to use our software'. Good luck with that. I think that it's pretty important that Python-based web apps have as good of a story on Windows as it has in other fields (pywin32 comes to mind) but feel free to disagree. Sorry for the rant. [1] http://tinyurl.com/2dfx37 -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214 _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com