On 6/7/06, Igor Bukanov <igor.bukanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/2/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/2/06, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming > > a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet > > it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects. > > 80% of Mozilla commiters are running Windows. Some are OS bilingual > but many are not. Mozilla build system on Windows requires Cygwin and there are 198 Perl files in Firefox tree. So it is only Python that can be problematic.
Other people have sent me mail saying this may not be as big as problem as was thought, only documentation people on WIndows may be an issues.
Regards, Igor
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