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I am doing an internship in Windows and I have to say his first few points are right on the dot. The windows debugger does have proper documentation. I know th
by Danieru 13y ago
I am doing an internship in Windows and I have to say his first few points are right on the dot.
The windows debugger does have proper documentation. I know this because two separate people on opposite ends of Windows Org made a point to mention this. Yet the documentation itself is not more than one would expect from complex software's man page. This contrasts well with the software I am integrating with for one of my projects. The only mention I could find of said software was a slide saying "This software has no documentation, here is a link to .NET decompilation software".
One surprise I can add is that Windows does not have an internal package management system. I expected to see a apt-get like tool. Instead there are various download.com like sites hosting installers.
- gisenberg 13y agoIf you're interested in package management solutions on Windows, you might want to see http://chocolatey.org http://chocolatey.org
- EvanAnderson 13y agoWindows has a package management system (Windows Installer). It's crufty and quirky and gets abused (package files that are just wrappers around standalone installer programs, for example) but is generally pretty usable. I've always wished more Windows developers would use it.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoWhat about NuGet? It seems to work well enough.
- alpb 13y agoHey there, author of the post here. By "documentation" I mean docs for millions of lines of code written for the infrastructure running our systems internally and not shipped to public. These are dark areas that one can't easily find documentation in corporations, IMO.