RE: Windows support in GDB

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>]

----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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