10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
10:06 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:16 -0700, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
Now *THAT* is to funny!
Zane
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Something else that irritates me is that Linux
programmers seem to be just
as bad about writing non-portable code as Windows programmers.
One of the problems I ran into with a couple of packages I wrote was
Debian "maintainers" buggering about with stuff to get it to compile on
all supported platforms and not passing changes back to me.
I wouldn't have minded so much, but the software was *specifically* only
intended for use on a PC or (at a pinch) a Mac with a serious audio
card.
Why they were bitching about it being able to compile on S390 or MIPSEL,
I really don't know. It hasn't a hope in hell of being useful on
anything other than a PC.
Gordon