Re: [Sdcc-user] [sdcc-devel] Caves, was Re: sdcc snapshot builds

[Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...>]

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Am 31.07.2011 19:29, schrieb Borut Ražem:
> The fact is that the big majority of sdcc users is running Windows:
> see snapshot builds download statistics at 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc/files/snapshot_builds/stats/os.
> 
> If I wold be vicious I would say: "Remove the Windows from their heads 
> and let the sun shine on their minds", but I'm not, so I never wrote 
> that! ;-)
> 
> P.S. for Windows users: don't even try to take this as an offence: I'm 
> just in mood to play with words. I'm still using Windows at my job, so 
> I'm joking on my account too.
> 
> Borut

I think you're misinterpretng that page. I rarely use Windows, far less
often than once a month. Nevertheless just today I started it, and
downloaded a Windows snapshot to have a look at some Windows-specific
problem a user reported. On the other hand I don't download snapshots
for other systems.
GNU/Linux users often find sdcc in their distribution, so they see no
need to download the latest snapshot unless they want the most recent
version. And if they want a recent version, the effort to compile it
themselves is far less than on Windows: GNU/Linux users are used to
download a tarball or from svn, use configure, make, make install; their
distribution provides them with everything they need to build sdcc. It
would be far more effort for a Windows user to build sdcc, since they
would have to obtain and install all the necessary tools first.

Do we have numbers for tarball downloads and svn checkouts / updates?

Philipp
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