Re^6: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment

On one hand I totally understand your frustration with both the relatively low level of perl support for Windows and with the negitve feelings you get from such responses.

On the other hand I know that both chromatic and petdance put a lot of energy in developing open source code especially for perl, testing and parrot. So I would not come to them with any complaint why don't they do more. Heck I should not do that to anyone who is giving up her free time to support some open source project.

I am not a Windows user myself but as my clients occasionally need stuff done on it I have one in a VMware installation and I constantly feel pain there. I am also teaching Perl and most of my clients are Windows users so I really would like to get better Perl support on Windows.

I think providing better support for Windows users will be a big boost to Perl so I would like to see more people helping the effort of adamk to improve Strawberry Perl, more people running smoke testing for CPAN modules on Windows and more people sending patches.

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Re^7: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by hsmyers (Canon) on May 14, 2008 at 04:33 UTC
I didn't come to them. They added on to a conversation they were not part of. I've been here for more than long enough to know the value of the work both have done for PM and Perl. If I could afford it, I'd fund them for the foreseeable future just on the basis of what has been done thus far. By the way, I've not said that Perl supports Windows poorly. I've haven't found that much of a problem at least with the work that I've done. Some how or another I've managed to find the packages I need, install and use them with great success. Sometimes it causes unnecessary hair loss; but programming does that anyway. --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]
Re^8: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 14, 2008 at 17:48 UTC
I didn't come to them. They added on to a conversation they were not part of. I didn't read "Unix programmers" as "Unix programmers (except chromatic, who's just awesome)". I read it as "People who don't program for Windows". I thought that assessment was unfair.	[reply]
Re^9: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by hsmyers (Canon) on May 14, 2008 at 20:54 UTC
I thought "Unix programmers(except chromatic, who's just awesome)" was a given! --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply]