On 09/29/2011 03:55 PM, Dima Klenchin wrote:
> I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be
> mostly due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the
> platform-specific issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers
> who were happy to code for MacOS 7-9 but refused to release anything
> that runs in Windows. Meanwhile, that is the only platform we never hear
> about installation and dependencies issues. Given the large number of
> Windows versions of CCP4 downloaded, I assume this is not because nobody
> actually installs Windows software.
I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case this is not true. It's
just down to convenience.
I develop on Linux because I install the OS and have a complete software
development environment with everything I need pre-installed, or at most
accessible after less than 5 minutes of playing with the unified
software manager.
For OSX, we have machines about the lab I can ssh into where other
people have set up the build environment so I can use it in almost
exactly the same way. I don't know how much work that was for them.
For Windows, I have to arrange a license, install, deal with a much more
painful registration and security update process, and then install a
load more 3rd party tools before I can even start working. That or try
and figure out the convoluted steps required to get cross compilation to
work.
That's all there really is too it.
Kevin
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