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