[ros-kernel] Press kit & developer kit

[Mark IJbema]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:18:48PM -0000, Andrew Greenwood wrote:
> > You're thinking Windows now, but not all developers use Windows, what
> > should we do then, offer such a kit for all possible OS-es? BTW, such a
> > kit already partly exists for linux, see the build-mingw.sh on
> > reactos.csh-consult.dk, It sets up a whole build environment for linux,
> > but maybe we should just create some sort of resource file, from which
> > we can build such a kit for both linux as windows. Personally i would
> > know how to setup things like this for linux, but i have no clue how to
> > do it for windows (windows doesn't even have wget :( ).
> 
> I did actually consider Linux. If such a package already exists for it, then
> we just need to worry about keeping that as up-to-date as the Windows one.
> 
> I personally don't use Linux, mainly because it just doesn't seem to
> function as well as Windows does for me. I'm not going to start an OS debate
> here, I'm just stating my reasons for not using it.
> 
> Aside from that, it's a very complex OS and you really do need to know how
> it all works to actually use it. Eg, mount/unmount is not something you have
> to do as a routine task in Windows, and modifying the partition layout is
> also a lot more straightforward.
> 
> So Linux users do tend to live the complex life anyway.

Did i mention i switched to Linux because it was easier? :)

Mark