Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] resubmission of win64 patch

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:01:13PM +0100, Felix wrote:
> > 
> > Nobody else cares about Windows.
> 
> How do you know that nobody cares about Windows?

I was talking about the Chicken developers.  I know, because nobody
besides you puts any effort in supporting it and fixing bugs.

> I feel an urge to cringe, whenever I hear such claims. And who
> cares about NetBSD, anyway?

Besides me, I think only Alaric does (again, from the Chicken
contributors).  Alaric doesn't use it on his main computer AFAIK,
and I'm slowly growing weary of NetBSD myself, so soon nobody may care.

> What if someone submits a patch for some exotic hardware platform?
> Will we be unable to accept it, just because we can't test it?

We would probably accept it, but I would be hesitant in signing it off.

> If the patch doesn't break anything and if it looks acceptable,
> why not add it, in the hope of giving more users the opportunity
> to try out chicken, and perhaps help in fixing any remaining
> bugs. 

That'd be fine.

> Moreover, we can not expect that someone will come up who tests
> the change. IME that happens rarely.

I generally test all the changes I sign off on.

> People usually appear suddenly,
> contribute something and vanish again. This isn't the worst model,
> though. But one has face the fact that in the end it is yourself
> who has to do the work.

True.  But the fact is that very few people test Windows or put effort
into fixing bugs under it.  That's the direct reason why our latest
release is broken under Windows.

Cheers,
Peter
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