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   Verily I say unto thee, that Lawrence D'Oliveiro spake thusly:   
   > In message , Tom Shelton wrote:   
   >   
   >> It is simply not true that it takes a lot of effort to setup an   
   >> automated build system on windows, nor does it take a lot of money.   
   >> It DOES take some knowledge - though, it's not that great a learning   
   >> curve if you have any programming knowledge at all...   
   >   
   > Yeah, but have you ever built anything like Gimp, which is not just a   
   > simple do-one-thing program, but a whole ecosystem of Free Software?   
      
   I wonder if Tom's DIY powershell build system can handle build   
   dependencies automatically, multi-arch builds across multiple virtual   
   hosts, distributed compilation, or full project management, with team   
   assignments; mailing list (and other) notification; automated wiki   
   building; bug tracking; and publication of single or multiple packages,   
   up to and including full distributions ... like, say, Koji?   
      
   > And it has to build on systems that you have no access to, with all   
   > kinds of weird setups. That’s why it depends on the GNU Autotools,   
   > which represent a huge accumulation of experience with the quirks of   
   > various proprietary systems.   
   >   
   > Have you ever developed software that had to cope with that?   
      
   Doubtful. Outside Microsoft, no Windows developers actually develop the   
   OS, or anything more significant than their own isolated "app".   
      
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