XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-12-23, Tom Shelton  wrote:   
   > chrisv explained on 12/23/2010 :   
   >> Tom Shelton wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It is not difficult or costly to setup a good software build   
   >>> environment in windows.   
   >>   
   >> But not as easy as it is in Linux, which often comes with development   
   >> tools by default!  From a geek's perspective, very cool.   
   >   
   > The fact that it might be slightly easier to setup a build environment   
   > on linux does not make the original proposition:   
   >   
   >   
   > Windows is a much more problematic environment for building software   
   > than Linux.   
   >   
   >   
   > Any less bogus.  Windows is not "much more problematic"...  The hardest   
      
       Sure it is.   
      
       A Granny can install a single package from the Ubuntu repository.   
      
       Let's see a Granny setup a build system on Windows.   
      
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       You've never needed to "be a developer" to build stuff on Unix.   
      
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