Re: gnome win32

[raster redhat com]

On 15 Sep, Ted Lemon shouted:
->  
->  > please do something usefulk and work on improving gnome and gtk and
->  > apps etc instead of just adding lots of #ifdef __WIN32's to the code.
->  
->  Where is this coming from?  Your idea of useful and my idea of useful
->  are not the same, nor should they be.
->  
->  If I choose to spend time making Gtk work on Win32, this won't be time
->  taken away from Gtk development - Gtk development isn't what I do.
->  You don't get to choose what projects I work on, and to some extent

no I don't - but I am allows to suggest to people to do something
useful - if you dont want to - thats your choice - in my eyes any win32
ports are a waste of time - they are an excercize in "because I can"
and not "because it's useful". All I see is nice code getting cluttered
up by #ifdef __WIN32 's that i've seen in other programs.

->  neither do I - I have to deal with the fact that there is substantial
->  demand for software on Win32 platforms, and I don't want to beat
->  myself bloody trying to pretend that's not so - I'd rather just make
->  it painless for people to migrate away from Win32.

and that demand i dont see will be usefully filled by gnome that is
attempting to make a unified desktop enviornment for X/unix - and
seeing windows already has this its pretty pointless to spend the time
on it... havintg gnome apps on win32 doesnt add any incentive to
windows users to move from their comfortable perches - bluescreens
aside they dont in the main care - they live with it instead of the
administration nightmare a unix Os is for most of them (the vast
majority dont even know what a user is and cant grasp root/user
permission differences - a major barrier). - they dont want gnome apps
- they just want to write letters to grandma, browse the web, read
mail, and play games - gnome will not improve or change that one iota.

->  So getting the Gtk API to work on Windoze won't take time away from
->  any Gtk hacking I might otherwise do.  Instead, it'll be time taken
->  away from creating some other abstraction so that I can write a
->  program that works equally well on Win32 and Unix.
->  
->  That's your choice.  Which would you prefer, given that choice?

ditch win32 altogether. :)

->  			       _MelloN_

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