On 30-May-08, at 9:25 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Diogenes Moreira diogenes.moreira@gmail.com wrote:
such as, when you close the world form the window menu. In linux squeak is killed without question, in windows the squeak ask you if you are sure of the action.
There was discussion regarding this issue about a year ago. I thought someone, (it might have been Ian), came up with a potential solution that got us part of the way. You might check the archives. I can't remember the final outcome.
IIRC the conclusion was that there is no very useful way to do it that would work for most, let alone all, versions of unix. Or something like that.
More generally there is no particular organised bias towards any platform amongst any of the most productive developers. There *is* a slight bias these days towards 'more modern OSs' in the sense that we expect more support from the OS than we might have done 10 (or 20, or 30) years ago. This is one of the things that lead me to cease work on the Risc OS port, and it might well make life a touch more complex for anyone in the future wanting to port to a very bare platform. But really, if we want to take advantage of things like Cairo, GPUs, sockets... well pretty much anything beyond the truly basic.. then we have to put up with it.
What you have to remember is that almost everyone involved is volunteering their time. That means you have to tolerate the vagaries of their own interests, time availability and tolerance for whiners. Report problems clearly, precisely, without stupid complaints about how unfair everyone is being to your narrow little world, with examples to help recreate the problem and with debug logs whenever possible. Then occasionally remind us of the problem, politely. And if the problem goes away because of some OS fix or machine change, let us know so we don't waste still more time.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: LTT: Lose Timing Track