On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:07:41 +0000 Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> said:
> I say why not. I am willing to work on it slowly slowly. > > My question becomes do we have any stats of enlightenement usage by windows > users? that's not likely to happen. just like enlightenment won't be ported to macos. x11 has a very specific concept of window managers and how they work. wayland is similar enough since we're fully compositing for us to do as well. doing something like a windows port is just not going to be sane, unless you are an expert at deep dark internals of windows crufty areas, and you also know e very well and x11... :) it's just not going to be happening any time soon, and then maintaining it alongside everything else is just not going to be sustainable. i am willing to bet windows' idea of "window manager" is vastly different to x11 or even wayland (thought windows vista on might be more like wayland), maintaining an abstraction is going to be huge effort and then there is the added technical debt it creates. the EFL port TO windows is already at our very limits. that should get more attention, and that has nothing to do with WSL. WSL may allow for cross-compiling EFL inside WSL on windows for use on win32 but it won't fundamentally change EFL's windows port. it'd just be a POSSIBLE cross-dev environment. i know vtorri does try and build EFL under msys2 with mingw32 (and there are issues right now). my take is efforts should be on this as we have a "mostly there" windows port of EFL and it really just needs love and attention. an enlightenment port to windows is is like many many many more orders of magnitude of work vs. giving EFL love and attention. > -----Original Message----- > From: Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com> > Sent: 22 January 2019 06:53 > To: Enlightenment developer list <enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Linux subsystem on windows > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:04 PM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> > wrote: > > > > As far as I know no, but cant we use what ever windows uses to display > > their UI? > > Yes, but then it is not a window manager is it? I think you could port > Enlightenment Wayland to Windows, running in Fullscreen. You will probably > find a lot of difficults, but I guess it can be possible. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com> > > Sent: 22 January 2019 06:49 > > To: Enlightenment developer list > > <enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Linux subsystem on windows > > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:16 PM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > I was just wondering given the fact that it's a part of windows now how > > > it would simplify the building of enlightenment on windows in the sense > > > before you probably would have needed mingw or Cygwin. I might give it a > > > try this coming weekend and start documenting on the wiki if I can or on > > > phab. > > > > The Linux Subsystem doesn't work with X11, you need a a Windows X11 server. > > And I don't know any X11 server which runs window managers on Windows. Is > > there? > > > > > Regards, > > > Jonathan. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: 22 January 2019 04:09 > > > To: Enlightenment developer list > > > <enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Linux subsystem on windows > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 2:18 AM Jonathan Aquilina > > > <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > > > I have an interesting thing I would like to work on. > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried to build enlightenement through the linux subsystem on > > > > windows? > > > > > > Not yet, but I'll probably try soon. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > -- > > Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > -- > Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
