On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:27 -0500, Fred Grott wrote:
> Besides you can run Linux Dev environments in Windows..VirtualBox is
> still a free download..
> 

CoLinux is pretty slick for hosting Linux on a Windows box as well.

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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>         I wouldn't support the windows petition because I feel the
>         effort involved would distract from improving Android itself.
>          
>         MacOS and Linux are pretty close in terms of development
>         environments. Windows is a big leap away.
>          
>         Al.
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>         ______________________________________________________________
>         From: [email protected]
>         [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred
>         Grott
>         Sent: 30 April 2009 14:04
>         To: [email protected]
>         Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Petitions to Google Android
>         Team
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>         
>         Sorry cannot support the subversion petition as its a step
>         backwards with less features than Git.
>         My suggestion would be to petition you IDE group to support
>         Git.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, AlexK
>         <[email protected]> wrote:
>                 
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 I work with Android more then 1 year and found several
>                 issues that
>                 will be good to change.
>                 
>                 As one person I can not influence on Google Android
>                 Team that is why
>                 I'm asking everyone about taking part in my petitions.
>                 Android Community have successful petition before -
>                 result of which is
>                 presence on "developer phone" for Android Community.
>                 
>                 My reasons are simple: I trust in Android, I like it
>                 and I want to
>                 make it better. So please spent 2 minutes of your time
>                 and sign
>                 petitions if you found them close to your hart.
>                 
>                 ========= PETITION #1 =========
>                 Change Android hosting from GIT to Subversion:
>                 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-svn/
>                 
>                 Reasons are:
>                 - Subversion is also Free and Open Source;
>                 - Subversion has much better and usable GUI for all
>                 OSs;
>                 - Subversion supports all features required for proper
>                 version
>                 controlling and collaboration of large teams;
>                 - Subversion has integration with all IDEs that can be
>                 used for
>                 development of Android applications/modules;
>                 - Subversion has many web UIs for code reviewing,
>                 tracking changes,
>                 bug tracking, etc. And they are more advanced
>                 comparing to GitWeb
>                 solution;
>                 
>                 ========= PETITION #2 =========
>                 Please provide proper support for Windows OS:
>                 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-win/
>                 
>                 Reasons are:
>                 - Linux and MacOS only two major platforms and
>                 ignoring of the third
>                 major platform - Windows, is a big mistake on my mind;
>                 - Windows developers also wants to take great part in
>                 developing of
>                 Android internals; providing Android build support
>                 only for Linux and
>                 MacOS only makes "curve" of involvement into Android
>                 development very
>                 low;
>                 - Windows support will increase community size
>                 greatly;
>                 
>                 more details about supported platforms can be
>                 extracted from
>                 http://source.android.com/download
>                 
>                 Thanks
>                 
>         
>         
>         
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