Am 03.10.2013 02:19, schrieb Lex Trotman:
All Developers,
Its time we deprecated windows support!!
It's not. See other's replies and my points below. I should mentioned that I do use Geany on Windows at work successfully. I don't use it to build/compile so the process spawning bug doesn't affect me.
The windows code in Geany is:
- unmaintained and bit-rotting
It's not as actively maintained as the Linux code. However the current state is *working*. Why drop support for a working platform if it's mostly working? It's not like it's costing us anything at the moment.
- buggy
Not significantly more buggy than the Linux version. The most prominent problem is the process spawning which doesn't handicap Geany's main purpose: editing source code. I don't know about a bug that is so severe that it requires immediate action.
- holding us at an unreasonably old GTK version
As others have mentioned, this is not true. LTS distros are. Windows has a more recent stable GTK release since a while. The problem is that the installers are still generated with the old one. Who can fix this? Are the scripts for this in Git?
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)
You can also do (limited) testing with Wine. It doesn't even need a Windows license.
Best regards.