On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, David Flood wrote:
I see now that I opened a large can of worms almost on the scale of VI vs EMACS.
David: You need to realize your strengths! hi hi
Each suggestion and thought has its own merit. But, taken as a whole, a move by a manufacturer from "free, no registration or serial number (I never had to enter one at all to use the Player in the past)" to "only installs on certain systems with the right cpu and you must have an account to even download it" is a step in the wrong direction when it comes to supporting as many different hardware and software systems as possible with Xastir.
I just went through the "only installs on certain systems with the right CPU" problem recently with NVidia drivers and AMD CPU's. I had to upgrade one of the kid's boxes just to get him going again with 3D. The AMD Athlon he had was a non XP version and didn't have something that the new driver required. I hate it when hardware has to be retired for no good reason.
Unfortunately the Player has become yet another victim of the "neighborhood crack dealer syndrome". Give them something at a discount at first and then, when they are hooked, jack up the cost/price/repercussions. I'd like to see Xastir escape before it is so hooked that there is no escape so I asked the question.
I guess I'd still like to see VMWare & VirtualBox supported. I'd very much like to see the Cygwin install retired, which was our first documented method of running under Windows. There's also andLinux which we have documented but I have no experience with.
I guess I had better dust off my programming skills and see if I can come up with a free way to create a Windows native executable. Either that or go find and submit fixes to Cygwin to make it a viable option again.
Talk to me directly. You know how to get a hold of me. I'm frustrated that I've not been able to make any headway on some important issues due to lack of time. I have some free time coming up RSN and will kick myself again if I don't make some progress during it. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
