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   From: tom_shelton@comcast.invalid   
      
   JEDIDIAH used his keyboard to write :   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I've never heard of a granny that would want to setup a builds system   
   on windows - unless she is a developer or a build manager.  The fact   
   that you would even suggest that a normal granny would even consider   
   doing such a thing is completely laughable.   
      
   The only reason linux systems come with build tools, is that it has   
   been the common for software in the *nix world to be distributed in the   
   form of source code - that is not the case on windows systems, and is   
   likely to never be the case.  In the windows world, the only people   
   that care about building code are geeks and developers.   
      
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