dropping Windoze?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 02, 2016
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Forked from Re: EuGTK 4.11.11?
Hi Kat,
"Trying to use Windows after using Linux for so long is making me physically ill." Somebody could equally say "Trying to use linux after using Windows for so long is making me physically ill."
Well, I guess that there's simply no accounting for taste. 
That said, those (few?) of you who hate Linux/GNU like the plague and flee to Windoze (versus the majority of us who are the other way) will soon have no where to go: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/ubuntus-bash-and-linux-command-line-coming-to-windows-10/
"Even when using Windows native software, it runs at half the speed of similar Linux programs " While it may be true,
Glad that you acknowledge that it is true.
it is irrelevant to people who want to use Windows.
Well, again, there's no accounting for taste. If you want to use it, then maybe that's because you like having things run at half speed ... ?
That said, I feel for those who don't want to but are forced to use it.
"I'm going to remove any Windows platform code from the next EuGTK version. " I don't think that would be a very rational decision.
Actually, we have a similar problem with the 4.1.0 release - no active developer currently runs a Windoze build system, so no one can issue a 4.1.0 release (or even another beta) for that platform. (Even though I'd like to, I've been holding off from declaring Windoze a lower tier platform.)
But irv's decision is more rational than the hypothetical OE one of dropping Windoze support for this reason:
Maybe I don't well understand the behaviour of the Broadway server, but as I understand it there would be no need of Windows code anymore in the application with the Windows bundle GTK3 + Broadway.
So irv can drop the code, and deal with less headaches from having to maintain it, but still let end users run euGTK programs on Windoze through Broadway. He really can have his cake and eat it too.
it is irrelevant to people who want to use Windows.
Actually, this raises an interesting point. Might the same EuGTK program run faster via Broadway than when running native on Windoze?
