Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Small patch :o)

[Daniel Sjolie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1999-05-20 09:43:33, David Pfitzner wrote:
> Daniel Sjolie wrote:
> 
> > When You have to code something that You don't really care about that's
> > work and when You can't use the tools You want because the one client
> > has to be portable and satisfy everybody that's less fun...
> 
> If you are writing code just for yourself, then fine.  But if you 
> want to have an active user and developer community, then you should
> consider their needs too.  You should consider whether it is fun for 
> those users (and prospective developers) if they can't run freeciv
> because freeciv or required libs don't work on their systems, or
> are too difficult to get working.
> 
> Of course there are tradeoffs, and one can't support every possible
> system.  So its a balance between developer convenience vs user 
> convenience vs widespread portability vs library dependence, etc.
> 
> Having fun often involves a lot of work ;-)

Of course...
I'm not saying I'm not prepared to do some work
but more work and less fun is a bad combination... :)

/Daniel

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