Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13385

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On 2 Nov 2005 12:44:16 -0400,

A case in point.

Now, I am no Uber hacker, I can barely feel my way around in C. But I was being bugged :) by an apparant memory leak in beagle (written in mono) Actually, the leak appears to be in the mono runtim, and is being triggered by beagle. but I digress...

Two commands

sudo apt-get build-dep beagle

and

apt-get source beagle

and not only do I have the current source for beagle (current as in the exact same version that's installed on my system) but I have all the required libraries and dev packages needed to compile beagle on my system.

For a componant of the core desktop on my system... Now, how much rigamarole would I have to go through with MS-Windows to get the same result? a core componant of the desktop's source, and all the dependencies? buttume for now, that I had access to the sources legally in some way. How big of a pita is it to set up a dev environment for something like this with all the dependencies and libs?

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