All Developers, Its time we deprecated windows support!!
The windows code in Geany is: - unmaintained and bit-rotting - buggy - holding us at an unreasonably old GTK version - hard to maintain due to being hacks on top of hacks - few of the developers have access to a representative development setup (no WinXP on a VM is hardly representative) Since there has never been a case of removing support for a platform before (that I know of) we don't have a process for doing it. Therefore I propose that the windows version be deprecated, announcing it on the website, user ML and #geany startup message and anywhere else it might get through. If this does not result in contributors who support the windows version coming forward and actually making a difference in the code and the user support then Windows should be dropped in a couple of versions. I don't have any windows systems, don't use it and can't develop for it, but I have always noted when I was aware that some issue would impact the windows version, and have tried to help people who have had difficulties with Geany on windows where I could. But I have run out of patience. Cheers Lex
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