Dawn McKnight <blu### [at] maccom> wrote:
> This is kind of why *nix isn't going to be replacing Winders as a 
> populist OS anytime soon.  Argh.

  I doubt that *compiling* things in Windows is any easer than in Unix.
  At least in Unix you almost always have a C/C++ compiler. In Windows
you usually don't have any.
  Also compiling C/C++ in Unix is almost always done in the same way.
In windows there are plenty of compilers, all of them used differently.
There's no general agreement on how windows source should be distributed
while in Unix you almost always get configure/makefile scripts, which should
work in almost any Unix flavour, regardless of the platform.

  Distributing a program in source code format is useful in Unix, because
it can be compiled so easily. Distributing a windows program in source code
form is mostly useless because almost no-one can compile it. I wouldn't say
that the windows situation is better.

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