Re: Testing

> At 02:30 PM 6/30/00 -0600, Jason wrote: > >Actually, it seems most people here seem to run Windows. > > I would guess that the users on the list roughly reflect the usage stats on > the web - a high percentage of apache users running *nix. Don't be so sure: Perhaps Windows users are more frustrated by the bugs and have camped out here in the hopes of fixing them. :-) > Also, Win32 bug reports make only comprise about 18% of the listed > platforms - I don't think that this is due to the Win builds being very bug > free ;) or the Win32 users being exceptionally knowledgeable compared to > their *nix counterparts. That's pretty odd. Zend.com tracked downloads of Optimizer, and a *LOT* of the users were Windows. Way more than 18%. Closer to 40%, IIRC. I suspect Windows users are less prone to filing proper bug reports than Un*x users: That's why their posts are all over PHP-General instead of in the bugs database where they belong. I also assume the Windows-dependent code is not inherently less bug-prone than the Un*x code (the opposite, if anything). [Ooops. I just realized that 40% statistic might be a sort of Zend trade secret... Oh well.] And a lot of Windows users are so used to software that just doesn't work on their particular version of Windows, and won't be made to work in a short time (ever wait for a patch from MS?), that they try it, it fails, they walk away. End of story. Lost convert. They don't realize that a bug report could give them a functioning product in (usually) 24 hours. Thus, I don't think the Bugs database stats are a true representation of the scope of usage and bugs.