Alex Riesen wrote:
On 2/23/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote:
Not to be unhelpful or anything, but activestate perl seems to be quite
a lot of bother. Is it worth supporting it?
It's not activestate perl actually. It's only one platform it also
_has_ to support.
Is it worth supporting Windows?
With or without cygwin? With cygwin, I'd say "yes, unless it makes
things terribly difficult to maintain and so long as we don't take
performance hits on unices". Without cygwin, I'd say "What? It runs on
windows?".
If we claim to support windows but do a poor job of it, no-one else will
start working on a windows-port. If we don't claim to support windows
but say that "it's known to work with cygwin, although be aware of these
performance penalties...", eventually someone will come along with their
shiny Visual Express and hack up support for it, even if some tools will
be missing and others unnecessarily complicated.
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