A book was [Re: [mv] Windows Status]

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Mike Heins wrote:

[snip]

> > 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.

Thank you very much, Mike, for coming out with this clear statement. I
hoped you would do this and hope my previous post was not too provocating. 

At least now we all know what you think and how you are doing and I
think that is good. 8-)

> 
> 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.
> 

I think many would agree with that. Now, as we can put this part
aside, would you mind to comment on one other question for all of us ?
(One advantage of answering would be that I have serious intentions not to
post any other off-topic  question ever to the list again. 8-)) :

	Do you like the idea of writing a book about MiniVend
	or not ? 

Several people have mentioned they want a book for almost over
a year or so. Everybody seemed to think that O'Reilly would be
their favourite publisher. Don't you think that MV and MML should
be made available to a larger audience ?

If you say "yes, a MV/MML book is not out of the question for you to 
write, I am out of here with a smile and never post again. 8-)

Birgitt Funk



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