Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc()

[Evan Langlois <Evan@CoolRunningConcepts.com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:36 -0700, Frederic Fouche wrote:
> Give me a good reason why a user still wanting to use new applications
> created in 2005, would deliberately want to use mint 1.1x?

Excellent point!

> I have given up coding for GEM due to its idiocyncractic
> implementation and overly cumbersome usage.   Anything to help the
> developer to only concentrate on the main task will be a blessing, as
> opposed to always thinking about,  Oh, what about magic? how am i
> gonna do that? what if the user is in 320x200? what if, what if. At
> the end, your code is 50% of bullshit just to compensate for other OS
> that are just not up to task.

Sadly - this is very true, and I can't agree more.

> I'll tell you what asinine is; a user demanding to run the latest
> applications (2005) on his 1985 hardware with an unsupported, not
> developed OS (magic 6.x, mint 1.1x)

Especially when you consider that XaAES doesn't cost them a dime to
upgrade, and it runs existing apps and new ones.