| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 28 Mar 2001 at 07:47:15 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] St. Louis? |
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By: Jonathan Potter <jpotter@lss.com.au>
To: dopus5@lss.com.au <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 8:00:19 AM
Re: [D5] St. Louis?
Hi Jonathan,
WH>> While the Windows version of DOpus is in the works is there any
WH>> chance of a patch to the Amiga version so it will more politely work
WH>> with OS 3.5 or 3.9? ... allowing animated .gifs to work....
JP> H&P are responsible for the altered behavior of Workbench when Opus is
JP> running - talk to them about it.
If you want to sell a product for a particular computer, you have to write
it to work with its current operating system. Insisting the OS is changed
to suit you, rather than coding for what exists, or refusing to accept it
as it is, is being pig headed. No matter how good or bad the OS actually
is.
Which beggars the next obviously logical question: If you don't want to
code to bad or stupid OSs, why are you making a Windows version?
Though, if you're not trying to sell your product anymore, it doesn't
matter. Or if you're /only/ going to support the older OS, rather than
the current one. You may as well say so, if that's the case.
It may be more profitable to ignore the newer OS, with less people using
it. But it's really cutting off your own nose to spite your own face.
Likewise if you tell people use the OS's GUI, *or* DOpus, but don't
complain to me that DOpus doesn't work with the official operating system
user interface.
The whole thing looks like, to me, yet another progammers bun fight, where
they all go around stating their programming skills are better than the
others; to avoid actually making things compatible. Arrogant smugness is
not impressive. And the users get left with half useable software, just
because of programmers egos.
Having said all that, I don't really care about animated imagery rubbish,
in a file manager. But any (potential) compatibility issues aren't
something a user should have to deal with. That's a Windows programming
mentality.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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