I can manage to run Linux to test my CPAN offerings--- why can't you return the favor?

I just sped up the garbage collector in Parrot measurably today. Why don't you spend your free time digging through piles of underdocumented C code, perusing profiling output, and reading research papers?

I spent part of my weekend backporting three features from Perl 6 to Perl 5. Why don't you spend your free time patching parsers and figuring out how to rewrite optrees?

I suspect your answer to both questions is the same as my answer to why I don't develop software on Windows. Care to dial back that self-righteousness some?

If you don't want your software to run under windows, just say so...

Did I say that? (That's a rhetorical question, as I said I'm happy to apply patches to help my software work on Windows.) If the people who run Windows and know how to program for Windows and want to program for Windows don't want my software to run under Windows, they should continue doing exactly what they're doing.

I've been berated, questioned, and attacked for having bugs in my software due to the fact that I don't run Windows and don't know how to program for Windows. How many people have even thanked me for making my software available and giving them the source code so that someone could possibly get it running on Windows? How many people have offered to pay me for my cost of getting a Windows machine and license and compiler tools and spending my free time learning how to write software for Windows and debugging on Windows when I don't want to do it and expect I won't enjoy it? (I've written software for Windows, many years ago. It was unpleasant. There's a reason I don't do it anymore.)

The lack of empathy is really quite surprising. I'm not sure what to make of it...

It comes from frustration at the staggering sense of entitlement some people have. I provide decent code, comprehensive test suites, and a liberal license for free. I would be happy to receive patches. I'm not happy to receive lectures on what I should or shouldn't be doing for my free time. If you want to tell me what to do, either hire me or find some other mutually beneficial way to compel me, because I'm very happy to tell ungrateful jerks to fix it themselves. (That's why I provide decent code, comprehensive test suites, and a liberal license.)

In reply to Re^6: Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by chromatic
in thread Suggestions on Deploying Perl Test Environment by diabelek

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