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Re: [mv] Windows Status
****** message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com> ******
Quoting Birgitt Funk (birgitt@minivend.com):
> Quoting Mike:
> > I will work closely with anyone who decides to give a *real* port
> > a shot. In other words, a port that takes all of the support issues
> > I usually consider into account. (I am sure there are some among you
> > who think I never think about that, but nonetheless.) Those include
> > finding and requiring modules automatically, having makecat work (which
> > it mostly does), a README, etc. This port would be a *lot* of work, i.e.
> > it would take me a week's time I am guessing.
>
> That is a *lot* ??? 8-)
>
> Even in $ terms of your hourly rates it is not...
That is beside the point...even if someone were to send me a check
for 40 hours I wouldn't do it.
I do make the assumption that if it would take me a solid week it might
take someone not quite as familiar with the Minivend internals twice that
long or longer.
As I have stated many times before, my problem is not money.
I make an excellent living, and I can and do spend time developing
Minivend.
Money is a renewable resource. Time is not; particularly time spent on
a dubious project. Minivend is unlikely to run production systems well
on Windows for some time to come. Maybe never. The major advantage of
a Windows Minivend is that people can develop catalogs on their local
machine and then upload them to a virtual server. With a reasonable network
connection you can even do that in SQL, thanks to the magic of DBI.
Someday I might put out a mini-HOWTO on how to do that easily.
But there are probably things which are more important. Ahh, the
glories of never being bored. 8-)
The bottom line is that it would be a disservice to the Minivend
community to put out a version for Windows that would cause a sharp
uptick in the questions to the mail list without providing a reasonable
reward on the other side.
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phone +1.513.523.7621 fax 7501 <mikeh@minivend.com>
Be patient. God isn't finished with me yet. -- unknown
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