[asterisk-scf-dev] Q: Microsoft Windows as part of the AstriCon demo?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 09/28/2010 04:03 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2010-09-28 16:00, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> We're working like crazy on constructing and testing the AstriCon demo
>> for Asterisk SCF. One subject that came up recently is whether we should
>> put some of the services being demonstrated on a Windows platform (in
>> addition to demonstrating them on Linux).
> 
> If you do this, I think the following will happen:
> 
> - People are going to give more importance to the fact that it is
> running on Windows than they should. After all, it is pretty easy
> nowadays to write code that runs on all platforms, given that you write
> on top of a portable toolkit.
> 
> - People are going to read way too much into it. Asterisk SCF will
> become "The Asterisk that runs on Windows" instead of "The Asterisk for
> hard stuff". Windows is not known for "doing hard stuff".
> 
> So in my opinion, do mention that it runs on Windows, but don't use it
> for the demo. Also, it makes the demo easier to setup, and maybe gives
> it more changes to succeed. *grin*

Just to be clear; the only portion of the demo that would be running on
Windows would *also* be running Linux in parallel (with both instances
involved in the demo).

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