[tex-live] TL'10 pretest trial

[Yan Zhou]

If I were you I wish I could just stop supporting this stupid platform.
However, whenever I have to use windows I still prefer TeXLive to
MikTex. I don't know why, maybe it's because TL gives the same user
experiance as in its nix counterpart to some degree, which make me
feel at home. So thank you for all the work.

On 7/6/10, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Mo, 05 Jul 2010, Philipp Stephani wrote:
>  > I think the TL team has to choose whether they actually want to support
>  > Windows or not.
>
>
> Sorry?? Am I missing something here? We are supporting W32 since about
>  somewhen in the 90ies as far as I remember ... what are you talking about?
>
>
>  > If they decide to support it, then I think it's not really helpful if
>  > team members constantly criticize the OS that they officially pretend
>  > to support.
>
>
> What has criticizing to do with supporting?
>
>  Remember we are doing that on volunteer basis, none of us is earning
>  one meager cent from that, and now you ask us not to criticize those
>  stupid shortcomings that creates long lng hours of headache for us?
>
>  Please either start contributing code that is portable yourself, or
>  stop telling us what we should or should not do, thanks.
>
>  Norbert
>  (asking himself sometimes what people expect and believe)
>
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