Re: Re[2]: [binarycloud-dev] platforms and makefiles

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> 1. A home developer with single machine. Got no chance and the
> solution that you offered is seems good. But typically i believe that
> the BC project covers more professional issues.

correct.

> Therefore scenario 2.
> 
> You are a developer in a office and you have one Linuz server machine
> and several Win boxes to manage your life.

right.

> We know that what a pitty but still xwindow platforms are not too much
> stable. What a shame everything rest of the Linuz system is like a
> strong German shoe but the frontside is still needs care for end users :=)
> 
> If this is the case, you have chance to do anything with server.
> It's up to you. I strongly recommend to anybody Putty. Small efficient
> way of Telnet and SSH connections. Also we got TCL, SSH for win,
> XClient and others.
> 
> Now the phenomenon is we should test the things on windoze because we
> have 80 percent of www users will come from win machines (IE world).
> Netscape, Opera, Konqueror is good to test of course but we should be
> realistic. Everybody want to use the things easily, without too many
> errors. Netscape handles all elements of the document carefully and
> reject the whitespaces, bad table definitions etc. So what?
> And if we want to stay in linuz world why we follow Microstylish xml rulez?
> I know from my colleagues that they typically use win boxes and do
> final tests on Linuz machines.

Coorrect.

> Last word, i'd like to use any toolz regardless of the source if comes
> useful by looking from the programmer angle. So, we need windoze too.

Well, but there's a difference from allowing developers to edit code on
windows (which is fine, of course) and actually running a server
installation on windows (which I don't intend to support directly - though
again I'm open to contributions/patches to make the system work on win - so
long as we don't have to have any ugly hacks.

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