On Feb 8, 2008 3:09 PM, tools.20.connelm@spamgourmet.com wrote:
Windows, as a platform, has done everything it can to make command-line programming something for "other" OSes. Well, whether Windows, Linux, Solaris or something else, the toolserver shared environment is a command-line environment.
It's also a web server. Yes, some of the tools on it are operated by their owners via a ssh command line, but the rest (I'd say the majority) are for public use over the internets.
I dunno - I just don't get where this request is coming from. Are there disadvantaged programmers wandering around carrying signs that say "WILL WORK FOR VISTA LICENSES" or something? If you're going to port local-specific code to a command-line environment...why would you ever choose Windows? You'd have to really like "" and really haet "/".
I don't think the plan is to be porting things (since most of the existing stuff is client side anyway), rather to provide an environment for those people out there in the Wikimedia community who code in things like .NET and don't know perl etc.
The original question was really to find out how many people there are in that boat; it hasn't really been answered yet.