On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:17:00PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:00:50PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:23:31 +0100
> > Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> >
> > > This is OT, but AFAIK many Debian developers simply use OSX,
> >
> > Jaromil, how can you possibly know this? If true, this is a damning
> > condemnation of the "DDs", especially given the systemd forcefeed. But
> > it's very hard for me to believe that people would work so hard to
> > produce something they don't even use. I can't imagine their
> > motivation. And logistically, how do they experiment with and debug
> > Linux code on a Mac? Are they using a Linux VM guest for this work?
> >
> > Is there evidence somewhere that Debian DDs use OS/x?
>
> I have no evidence, but it's not implausible if developing
> Debian is their job.

For people working on server or web crap, that's reasonable (besides the
unreasonability of using OS X in general): a good part of server Debian
users connect from Windows or Fruits, developers doing so wouldn't make me
bat an eye. Note that they _do_ use what they produce.

For arm stuff, unplausible as even for cross toolchains, everything is
heavily married to Linux hosts.

For client and GUI stuff, it'd be newsworthy. If you don't even use your
own product, you're bound to produce utter unusable crap. See: Miguel de
Icaza.


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