I'm probably unwisely pouring oil on flames here, but at least that fits
with the national "bonfires" theme.
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Daniela Bauer wrote:
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> Given that the whole grid is basically SL6 I wonder how many windows users are out there ;-)
At least one. It's how we got MICE QA data on to the Grid in the first
place: uploaded with Java CoG kit on Windows XP straight from the DAQ,
which involved Excel and Visual Basic and wasn't about to be ported to
Linux because of some else's artificial middleware constraint.
(And that was running for real, in production, in anger. Lots of anger
- fill in own jokes here. I did draft a CHEP abstract but lost count of
timezones while travelling so it never got submitted or written up :( ).
This is also why I was keen on VBrowser http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlet/
before MICE gave up on expecting its end-users to interact with the Grid
at all (beyond using http to fetch data that is actually on an SE).
That is a long while ago, but I think I'm trying to make some boring
serious point about the importance of minority use cases as they may
actually represent a significant part of the cost-of-entry / viability
mindset for some projects.
Thanks
Henry
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