[Mspgcc-users] Re: mspgcc is not a reliable Windows solution

[Andreas S. <and...@gm...>]

Douglas Kennedy wrote:
> .You are right  about the fragility of this development.
> A response to the " segmentation error issue " from one of the developers
> Dmitry <di...@ma...> was and I quote.
> "I cant help here, cause I'm not running windows"
> Yet In the download web page Dmitry is given credit for the port toWindows
> 
> I understand this is a free platform and that we should expect to get what
> we paid for. However this is was promoted in Circuit Cellar in an article
> about MPS430 and also at the mikrocontroller web site from which it was
> downloaded. The article and the website say  it is windows compatible
> Some will always shoot or impune the messenger or grasp at any convenient
> reason  for the lack of results. Some will feel that the reporting of a
> defect by a user brings with it the obligation for that user to undertake
> fixing it. If this is the philosophy of this development group it will have
> a chilling effect on the quality of the end product. Perhaps it already has
> since the fact is this doesn't at the moment work reliably across Windows.

Windows 9x is nothing more than crap, nobody would want to use it for
anything except games or web surfing. If you want to do development work
get a real operating system like Win2000 or some kind of Unix.

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