Perhaps many of the core developers don't care if windows users take
the project seriously?
On Sep 19, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Naz Gassiep wrote:
It's the folks who think that non-Windows-using developers should
care
about Vista that bug me. This is open-source code, people. Scratch
your own itch.
The "scratch your own itch" line can only be pushed so far, if it
is being said by a developer who works on a project that desires to
be taken seriously by professionals in industry. For minor
features, yes, perhaps it could be argued that the core team could
ignore certain issues, and just wait for a patch. For something
like Vista compatibility, if you want to be taken seriously by
anyone who uses Windows (hands up anyone who knows a Windows user),
"scratch your own itch" is not really going to cut it, IMHO. I'm
used to getting that line when talking to 2 developer obscure
projects that have a userbase of a half a dozen, but for a project
like PostgreSQL, the "they tell you to do it yourself" brush is one
we do NOT want to get tarred with.
If we don't have the resources to cope with a Vista port
immediately then so be it. If it's low priority, so be it. However,
lets not appear to deride as unnecessary that which we cannot
immediately provide a solution to. That's small time project
mentality.
- Naz.
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