Re: Software platform for mc development.

[Terranova <terranova acenet net au>]

> > Can anyone advise the distro and version being used for current
> > mc development?

> I don't see any logic here.  I believe you are making too many assumptions
> without admitting it.  Let me see which assumptions you are making.

> 1) Are you assuming that all the developers of mc use the same platform?
No

> 2) Are you assuming that mc works significantly worse on the platforms
> that the developers don't use for development?
No

> 3) Are you assuming that mc is not tested on any platform that is not used
> for its development?
No

> 4) Are you assuming that the mc developers are using the platform on which
> mc works best?
No

> 5) Are you assuming that you won't be able to participate in the
> development if you have a platform different from the one used by the
> developers?
No

> 6) Are you assuming that your bug reports won't be taken seriously if you
> have a platform different from the one used by the developers?
No

I was assuming that a single distro & version is used as a reference for 
checking package integrity, and to resolve any platform-specific bugs. This 
has been standard practice in every software project with which I've ever 
been involved.

> I hope that you will answer "no" at least to the questions 3 and 6.
> Otherwise I would say that your opinion of the mc developers is very low.

I had not formed ANY opinion of mc developers - until now, that is.

> I cannot answer for others, but I'm one of the developers, and I use Red
> Hat Linux 8.0 for the development.  This is probably the only major
> GNU/Linux distribution where mc doesn't work well out-of-box because of
> the Red Hat's attempt to use UTF-8 on the console and in terminals under X
> Window System.

That could explain why I tried RH80 and went straight back to RH71.

CDA