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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...> - 2005-11-21 16:58:57
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Neal Norwitz wrote: > On a different note, I noticed the results from the survey (in which I > participated). It's good to see the results. One word of caution > though. Even though most people are saying they want to run on Linux, > that is a self-selected group of users. It could be there are > millions of people who would run on Windows if it was available and > they knew about it. I say this even though I don't personally run a > windows box. :-) Yes. That's why I wrote this in the detailed notes on question 9: - This question doesn't tell us as much as it might seem. For example, if Valgrind were available for Windows I'm sure that would account for most usage, but because most Linux developers don't do much development on Windows, Windows doesn't get mentioned very much. For this reason I think our main target platform of PPC32/MacOS X is still a good one; I think that will expose Valgrind to a large group of new users. Thanks for the testing results, it's good when people report this sort of thing. Often the fixes are easy, as in this case (at least for some of them), but we can't fix problems if we don't know about them :) Nick |