I also"checked my facts"; it wasn't a "you" as in "Kean Johnston", but a generic "you".
please, assume that I don't automatically mean to insult people when I reply to an email.
ciao,
Emmanuele.
(sorry for the formatting: I am using my phone as the conference's network is flaky)
On 8 Aug 2011 14:51, "Kean Johnston" <kean johnston gmail com> wrote:Check your facts. I am hard at work trying to get Win32 up to speed. I'm submitting patches when they are ready. I am doing a LOT of debugging, experimentation etc. I may not be able to fill Tor's shoes but I am very much hard at work making sure Win32 doesn't "lag".
> asking for "love" without giving anything back in return except
> complaints after the fact is no...Which is exactly what I am doing :P
> environment. the GLib and GTK+ maintainers are not experts on Windows,
> we said that multiple t...You say potato, I say potahto. To me a platform library *IS* just an abstraction library. Sure it has a bit more "stuff" than just wrapping things like the differences in snprintf() implementations but a not-insignificant portion of GLib is just that: abstracting away minor system differences to create a universal platform. Something it does very well mind you.
>> The "creeping featurism" of what is supposed to
>> be a small, system abstracting library shoul...
I realize it is not the project's goal, but my *personal* agenda is to make Gtk+/GLib development trivial on Windows. Professionally, personally and religiously I'm a UNIX man, but one thing UNIX lacks is some of the better apps available on Windows. It may not change the world but if we can remove one more barrier to Windows developers being able to easily port to UNIX we may start seeing more of them. With Linux having a bigger and bigger market share it is becoming more attractive for people to consider porting to it, but not if that development costs major dollars, and having a platform that works equally well on both OSes drastically reduces that cost. It's worth bearing in mind when GNOME- or UNIX-centric decisions are made, that's all I am saying.
Kean