Le 03/10/2013 02:19, Lex Trotman a écrit : > All Developers, > > Its time we deprecated windows support!!
Although I don't use Windows, I don't really see why. > > The windows code in Geany is: > > - unmaintained and bit-rotting Nick uses it AFAIK, and he had done things on it, so it's not that true. > - buggy Well, I can't say there isn't a problem with the spawning code here -- but that's the "only" thing I know that is truly problematic. > - holding us at an unreasonably old GTK version Sorry? I don't think Windows support has anything to do with the GTK version we support. If anything, it's rather the contrary, providing a newer version for Windows installers is far easier than forcing users of old GNU/Linux distros to build a new version. > - hard to maintain due to being hacks on top of hacks Again, spawning code (only?) > - few of the developers have access to a representative development > setup (no WinXP on a VM is hardly representative) I indeed don't, but AFAIK Nick and Matthew does > [...] > > 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. It would indeed be nice to have more developers that really user the Windows version and have time and will to improve and fix it. > 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. That was nice, thanks :) Anyway, although I agree the Windows version isn't as good as it should right now, I don't really see the problem it causes to the rest of Geany. And if we indeed clean some things up a little like Matthew suggests, it could even be just fine (Windows dialogs, come on). Cheers, Colomban _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel