What all of the posts I've seen today admit to is that they don't even bother to test their code on the hated platform. I find that amazing.

Why is that amazing? I don't test my code on platforms I don't have access to. It's remarkably difficult. I rely on people who have problems to report bugs. I don't know how much easier to make it for them to do so.

I make a simple observation and what I get in response is not discourse, but anger. I have never in the years that I've been part of PM ever, EVER, told you or any other monk what to do. Certainly not about your work for the Perl community. Are you suggesting that I have?

I'm suggesting that you, me, Larry, no one has the right to tell other volunteers what to do with their spare time or to berate them for caring about different things than you, I, Larry, anyone else cares about. It doesn't matter if the person is reasonably famous within the Perl world and wrote a book or two on the subject or is someone who's just appeared with his or her first module.

You're right that I'm completely frustrated with the lack of support from many Windows users. Where my software doesn't work on their platform, it's not that I don't want it to work on that platform. It's that I don't use that platform and have no desire to use that platform. My experience is that no one cares enough about my software on Windows to put forth any effort even to report bugs from Windows, but plenty of them put forth the effort to complain that I don't run Windows.

This does not endear me to test my software on Windows. I suspect I'm not alone in this feeling.

My work is no where near as important(hell it's not even important) as yours....

Now you're not being fair to yourself. If people were ragging on you for not doing things their way, I'd stick up for you too. If you don't run a particular platform or it's not enjoyable for you to spend your precious volunteer time porting to a particular platform, that's exactly your right, and no one should criticize that choice of yours.

In reply to Re^8: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by chromatic
in thread Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by diabelek

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