Re: ProtoCiv: porting Freeciv to Python CANNED

From: Brandon J. Van Every (try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/15/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:14:41 -0800

"JanC" <usenet_spam@janc.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns94711BBF5F7D6JanC@213.119.4.35...
> "Brandon J. Van Every" <try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname@yahoo.com> schreef:
>
> > I am not sure how I feel about it. I think it only bothers me when
> > they claim to be cross-platform in theory, and the Windows build
> > simply does not work in practice. A working Windows build should be
> > easy to obtain all the dependencies for, and it should just build.
> > When it doesn't do that, when you have to chase all over Hell's green
> > acre to find the libraries, and then the build simply coughs and gags
> > and dies, I'm not even slightly amused at how "cross-platform" some
> > Linuxer is claiming things to be.
>
> You think "cross-platform" means "it runs out-of-the-box on all possible
> platforms that ever existed, now exist, and will ever exist"?

Please. I talked about supporting *Windows*. You know, the globally
dominant OS. 

-- 
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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA
20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.

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