From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T06:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

On 3/19/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Austin a TROLL??? Well maybe he has adopted a troll like language but
> > I believe that you should see the context of all his contributions.
> >
> > I defend him because I dislike him a lot and I find his Unix hatery
> > quite boring.
> > BUT he is a very valuable contributor.
>
> Hatery?
>
> I'm not sure what you're reading, Robert, but in no way am I a Unix
> hater. At work, I'm now running Ubuntu as my primary desktop (with
> Windows as a VM) and have switched to OS X at home. I develop
> professionally for Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX -- and Windows. What
> I refuse to do is to accept Unix-only solutions for things, because
> that's just chauvinism that has no place in Ruby, IMO.
>

Yes, port to such alien environment like WIndows is the litmus test of
portability :-)

As one should not accept solutions that "work for the 90% of users"
(on Windows only), one should not accept solutions that exclude about
half of the users (the Windows users).

Thanks

Michal