RE: Windows support in GDB

Dave Korn
2005-04-29T17:00:20Z

----Original Message----
>From: Mark Mitchell
>Sent: 29 April 2005 17:56

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>
>>> From: Mark Mitchell
>>> Sent: 29 April 2005 17:15
>>
>>
>>> The fundamental reason for us to use it is that our customers say --
>>> strongly -- that they do not want to use Cygwin. (In contrast, I use
>>> Cygwin every day.) There are a lot of possible reasons for the customer
>>> desire, and it doesn't really seem all that useful to debate the
>>> reasons, as our debate won't change their minds.
>>
>>
>> :) The customer is always right, even if they're a complete idiot!
>
> Hardly -- and we consider it part of our job to educate our customers on
> what's appropriate and what's not.

Actually, yes, you do have a point there. I am reminded of the story
about the customer who *insisted* most forcefully to his contractor that the
windows kernel-mode deviced driver he was contracted to develop absolutely
*had* to be written in MFC..... :-O

cheers,
DaveK
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