On 12 April 2016 at 08:16, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: > >> One development that seems to be ignored on these lists is Microsoft's >> announcement that it will support Bash on Windows 10. As I understand it, >> the goal is to be able to run Ubuntu programs on Windows 10 using a >> standard 'short-cut'. If so, it is possible that Sugar can run as a native >> Windows application within months. >> > > > I've been running bash (and gawk and other GNU tools, and ffmpeg, and > imagemagick, etc) on Windows for ten years now with the awesome cygwin > package. I'm not sure how the MS offer will improve on that. The beta > version has bad security for example (user permissions are root, within a > sandbox). My understanding is that these are commandline tools only, there > is no graphical support and none is planned. I'd like to be wrong. >
fontforge is a unix/x11 c program, and the windows installer bundles a X server and starts and stops it around the application, so it 'just works.' Perhaps something similar can work for Sugar.
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