Re^6: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment

[petdance]

Why do you copy Microsoft and expect your users to debug your software?

It's not that those of us who don't use Windows expect others to debug the software, but rather that we're not particularly interested if Windows people use it. (Exception: ack) People write software to scratch their individual itches, and release it hoping that someone else will find it useful. That doesn't mean that because someone has put something out there for free that you have any reasonable expectation that it will work for you.

Whenever my wife & I buy a new piece of furniture, if nobody else in the family is interested, we'll leave the old piece, say, a coffee table, out on the curb. We figure that someone will pick it up and find it useful. It's usually not more than a day or two that it takes for someone to pick it up. Now imagine that someone knocks on our front door, complaining "That table doesn't match my living room! Your lack of empathy is quite surprising!"

That's you.

Maybe we should just stop leaving things on the curb? Would that be better?

[hsmyers]

It's not that those of us who don't use Windows expect others to debug the software, but rather that we're not particularly interested if Windows people use it.

My point precisely.

[petdance]

But so what? Why in the world do you think you're entitled to have free software run on your specific platform?

[hsmyers]

And just where in the hell would you expect MM_Win32.pm to run oh lordly one? On the moon? As I said before, I've no problem with those who choose to skip the ride to Redmond. But this isn't about that.