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Having "spent the effort" over and over again, I fully understand why hobbyists don't bother: The Proper Way on Windows is a largely undocumented minefield str
by Deestan 15y ago
Having "spent the effort" over and over again, I fully understand why hobbyists don't bother:
The Proper Way on Windows is a largely undocumented minefield strewn with broken glass and lack of a sane package managing system.
Personally, I require payment to even bother.
- pjmlp 15y agoFrom my experience of doing software development professionally in several flavors of UNIX and Windows systems, I would say Linux is no better as there is seldom a way that works flawlessly across distributions.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoI can't remember the last time I struggled building something on a random distribution that worked on another. What are you doing that you run into incompatibilities across modern Linux distributions? It's certainly better than: "use VS" or "suffer through any other sort of Windows dev" in my opinion.
- pjmlp 15y ago- Packaging - Default installation directories - so Dependencies Regarding your comment, there are many other ways to develop software for Windows besides VS.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoThe third is the only that's tangentially related to the development pains we're discussing here. Packaging is a "fun" issue, but it's apples and oranges with multiple compatibility layers to get to a common denominator to be able to ... build a DCPU toolchain for example. >Regarding your comment, there are many other ways to develop software for Windows besides VS. Uh huh, and as seen even... right here... it's normally a (relatively) major pain in the ass to orchestrate.
- lmm 15y agoI'm constantly running into incompatibilities with my own code, all of them due to Debian. The one that's still causing me trouble is being able to invoke a pyuic4 that has access to both pykde and pyqwt; as far as I can tell that's impossible on Debian.