Stephen,<br><br>It appears to me that you you have just given a good reason to develop on nix for implementation in nix or Windoze. This would give less aggro & brain strain. For implementation in Windows, then install to run under Lina. Disadvantages are slow run time and potential difficulty in installing Lina on customer's PCs. I'm happy to be shot down over this.<br>
<br clear="all">Regards,<br>John<br>07894 211434<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/7 Stephen Parkes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparkes@westmids.biz">sparkes@westmids.biz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/9/7 Dave Morley <<a href="mailto:davmor2@davmor2.co.uk">davmor2@davmor2.co.uk</a>>:<br>
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:28 +0100, dick_turpin wrote:<br>
>> Dave Morley wrote:<br>
>> > I'm with Pete to a degree here.<br>
>> ><br>
>> Oh gawd there goes my street cred as a grouch<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> Hey anything I can do to upset you Pete you know me ;)<br>
<br>
Classic :)<br>
<br>
The MS browser thing is about monopolies. What MS should have done<br>
all along was provide a script to get the latest version of<br>
competitors with a mouse click and a webpage with a comprehensive list<br>
of Windows browsers. Then it would be about how stupid their<br>
customers are not to install a new browser even when they are offered<br>
it on a plate and not that they don't tell their customers an<br>
alternative is available.<br>
<br>
I don't give a toss what other people use these days. Today (and for<br>
most of the last weeks as it happens) I'm using Windows XP to program.<br>
The code is pretty platform independant OpenGL stuff written in C++<br>
but as the majority of the users are going to be using Windows (and<br>
because windows makes the more modern bits of OpenGL harder to use<br>
than *nix) this is the system I have to test for.<br>
<br>
After years of doing development on Linux, Solaris or OSX and then<br>
finding it was bloody windows that caused all the problems (both web<br>
and desktop apps) made me see the light and do the vast majority of<br>
testing on windows.<br>
<br>
My dev tools are still based on GCC though ;)<br>
<br>
sparkes<br>
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