XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-12-24, Hadron  wrote:   
   > JEDIDIAH  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 2010-12-24, Tom Shelton  wrote:   
   >>> 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   
   >>   
   >>     Yes. Unix software is cross platform.   
   >>   
   >>     It has been written and distributed that way since before Linux came   
   >> around and it wasn't just limited to GNU. So you could have a single   
   >> "installer" that covered every major commercial Unix and possibly even VMS   
   >> too.   
   >>   
   >>      It's like Java but without the performance hit.   
   >   
   >   
   > Crikey. You really showed there that you know NOTHING about sw.   
   >   
   > "Unix SW is like Java but without the performance hit".   
   >   
   > That's a keeper.   
   >   
   > Jed confusing Unix for a programming language....   
   >   
   > Dont tell me, you meant something on a different level ...   
   >   
      
       Obviously. Since you clearly don't understand Java either.   
      
       Add that to the long list of things you know nothing about but   
   insist on spewing misleading and wrongful information about.   
      
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