From: s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au (Ben Constable) Subject: Re: Win 95 console business 5 Nov 1997 21:47:54 -0800 Message-ID: <971106013321.2266.cygnus.gnu-win32@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Cc: , >How quickly do bugs get fixed in VC++? Windows Developer's Journal has a >column called "Bug++ of the month". The answer - who knows? Maybe months, >a year...with GPL'd software, it gets fixed either immediately or within >a week or so (although sometimes the fixes cause more bugs because people >sometimes patch like hell without considering that something needs to be >redesigned). Go to www.microsoft.com and you will find a portion of their site devoted to reporting bugs and their fixes. I have found a few compiler bugs, and the site had all of them, as well as workarounds. And I have been on this mailing list for a long time, and I have seen the same bugs come up again and again for months and years. >And...public and free software, once it reaches a certain critical mass, tends >to attract lots of good developers and users, and it will outstrip most of >the commercial software in its domain. Emacs certainly does...gimp is getting >there, GAP is already there, and I'm sure you could name others. So yes, >I think VC++ is much better in some respects than gcc, but they do have >different goals, and it might not be the case in the future. I agree that they have different goals, and that is exactly what I have said. I just personally find VC++ to be tuned over the span of nearly ten years to windows development. How old is gnu-win32? The bare fact the MS writes the operating system means that they will have an advantage in writing development tools, and these days they use that advantage a lot (back in the old days they didn't). Ben Constable s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".