[clean-list] future of clean

[Bas van Dijk]

Hi,

I like the idea and I have another question.

What is the reason that all the 'fancy new features' are developed for Windows 
first and ported to Linux later?

Wouldn't it be a better idea to do it the other way around?

I think: if the Clean project wants to be a more serious and succesfull 
opensource project [1], its main development has to occur on Linux. The 
reason, among others, is that the opensource community is much larger in the 
Linux world than it is in the MS Windows world.

[1] Clean Wish List, 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~keslr/functional/clean/wish/main.html#OpenSource

Bas.

On Thursday 20 January 2005 14:39, Marco Kesseler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> would it be an idea to completely avoid the 1 big windows
> distro with all the fancy new features stuffed in? So:
>
> * For all platforms a "core" distribution that is
>   compatible for Windows/Linux/Macintosh.
> * separate distro's with all the fancy new features
>   stuffed in for windows (or other platforms).
>
> The point being that if you force yourself to work in
> this way, it becomes visible to everyone (also the Clean
> developers) how big or tiny this core really is.
>
> Another potential gain is that these two distro's can be
> at different stages of development. For production level
> work it is often very important that the core system
> remains stable and that bugs get fixed. The bleeding edge
> can then be used for research and teaching.
>
> regards,
> Marco