Besides you can run Linux Dev environments in Windows..VirtualBox is still a
free download..






On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I wouldn't support the windows petition because I feel the effort
> involved would distract from improving Android itself.
>
> MacOS and Linux are pretty close in terms of development environments.
> Windows is a big leap away.
>
> Al.
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Fred Grott
> *Sent:* 30 April 2009 14:04
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [android-discuss] Re: Petitions to Google Android Team
>
> Sorry cannot support the subversion petition as its a step backwards with
> less features than Git.
> My suggestion would be to petition you IDE group to support Git.
>
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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:58 AM, AlexK <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I work with Android more then 1 year and found several issues that
>> will be good to change.
>>
>> As one person I can not influence on Google Android Team that is why
>> I'm asking everyone about taking part in my petitions.
>> Android Community have successful petition before - result of which is
>> presence on "developer phone" for Android Community.
>>
>> My reasons are simple: I trust in Android, I like it and I want to
>> make it better. So please spent 2 minutes of your time and sign
>> petitions if you found them close to your hart.
>>
>> ========= PETITION #1 =========
>> Change Android hosting from GIT to Subversion:
>> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-svn/
>>
>> Reasons are:
>> - Subversion is also Free and Open Source;
>> - Subversion has much better and usable GUI for all OSs;
>> - Subversion supports all features required for proper version
>> controlling and collaboration of large teams;
>> - Subversion has integration with all IDEs that can be used for
>> development of Android applications/modules;
>> - Subversion has many web UIs for code reviewing, tracking changes,
>> bug tracking, etc. And they are more advanced comparing to GitWeb
>> solution;
>>
>> ========= PETITION #2 =========
>> Please provide proper support for Windows OS:
>> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-win/
>>
>> Reasons are:
>> - Linux and MacOS only two major platforms and ignoring of the third
>> major platform - Windows, is a big mistake on my mind;
>> - Windows developers also wants to take great part in developing of
>> Android internals; providing Android build support only for Linux and
>> MacOS only makes "curve" of involvement into Android development very
>> low;
>> - Windows support will increase community size greatly;
>>
>> more details about supported platforms can be extracted from
>> http://source.android.com/download
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> >
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