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raised left eyebrow Does anyone care about Windows users? If you're doing any heavy development with a set of open source tools on Windows - I don't know it ju
by jawngee 17y ago
raised left eyebrow Does anyone care about Windows users?
If you're doing any heavy development with a set of open source tools on Windows - I don't know it just seems like nonsense. Dual boot, vmware, virtual box, hackintosh, whatever means necessary, but it's always been my fundamental belief that I work in an environment as close as possible to what I'm deploying to. You're just creating headaches for yourself otherwise.
And if this is headed towards any kind of production/hosting thing, you - or someone above you - are making a series of pretty poor decisions. I'm not sure there is any other way to put it.
- bensummers 17y agoA reasonable position to take. But if it's the case at MySQL, Windows should not be a supported platform and they shouldn't ship binaries.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoPlease. Half the Windows developers in the world would be out of business if held to this standard. Almost certainly including Microsoft. MySQL has bugs, but the basic functionality works on Windows. Or so I assume, considering that those bugs don't seem to have prevented tens of thousands of PHP developers from making good use of MySQL when developing their software. (I wouldn't know, of course -- I use Mac OS and Linux.) I'm sure the bugs are annoying, though. Maybe the people who care about them should get out the GPL source code and fix them. Or maybe they should pay someone who knows how to fix them. Or maybe they should do what just about everybody else seems to do -- calculate the price of options one and two, compare them to the cost of running Linux, and deploy on Linux. Or they can bang on the table and cry in the hopes that someone will fix their problems for free. Good luck with that.
- bensummers 17y agoI'm not saying that it should be without bugs! I assume Windows developers and Microsoft care about supporting Windows, and develop on the platform. MySQL developers don't sound as if they do anything on Windows. Given that MySQL put the Windows download link first in their list of downloadable binaries, you would have thought that it was a platform they might use for a fair percentage of their development work.
- mwexler 17y agoBut you assume _everyone_ is deploying to a Linux and a server environment. What if you are writing a desktop app: a poker assistant, a contacts deduper, whatever. Some datasets strain the usual embedded dbs, and MySQL would be great... if it worked consistently on windows.