[Mailman-Users] Challenge

[Simon White]

17-Feb-03 at 10:09, Cody Harris (hchs at ns.sympatico.ca) wrote :
> Why not make a release of it? The wider the user range, the more popular. 
> If nobody will take any interest, so be it.

If only it were that simple. Usually, releasing something (as a binary)
for Windows means BUYING a compiler from Micro$oft or Borland (if they
indeed still exist) and "porting" the application to use all the wierd
and wonderful system calls that the Win32 OS uses.

Mailman may be a bit of an exception since it's mostly in Python, but it
uses some C calls here and there IIRC.

Now, if someone has a copy of VisualC, wants to get it all working
nicely, and put it "out there", and cover the issue of getting it to
integrate with an MTA or really getting the now built-in MTA (again, I
think this is right) then it might work on Windows.

But you'd STILL be better off running it on Linux/FreeBSD because that's
where it's originally "native", and I can only assume that Open Source
is the general philosophy of most list members.

Maybe you're not understanding where most Open Source people
(programmers, developers, users, sysadmins) are coming from.

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000382.html

There are loads of articles like this, try:

http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=109

Regards,

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