Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:51:35PM -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
    > > For me a Windows support is much more important and in darcs world=20
    > > Windows is a first class citizen. Unless you do the same people will=20
    > > standardize on something else than tla.

    > Yadda yadda yadda, free software is impossible, linux doesn't exist.

    > It's empirically false. That line stopped being funny back in the
    > 1990s (when it became blatantly apparent that no matter how many
    > vendors you pay off, people will *not* shift from unix platforms).


Heh.  

It's also the case that the bar for "first class windows support"
keeps getting lower and lower.   Many can and many more will be able
to host virtual unix boxes on a windows environment: run arch there
and cross mount the filesystem.   Bonus points if you can pop up X
windows on your Windows screen.   This is a perfectly "first class"
approach.  The network, however virtual, is the computing system, so
to speak.

With that approach, when you run into bugs like /Windows/ programs
that can't handle a deep path even if the underlying (Windows) OS can?
Well, that's not an arch bug...

-t