On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Martin Bähr <mba...@realss.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Chris Angelico's message of 2016-07-22 00:46:18 +1000: >> Hah. Actually, I've been pushing more people onto Pike who aren't >> developers, and unfortunately there are a number of trickinesses to >> working on Windows. I've largely come to the conclusion that "Windows >> sucks" is a valid excuse for nearly any bug that I can't repro on >> Linux, but for all those non-developers who want stuff to "just work", >> getting them to install Debian might be a lot of hassle... > > would the linux environment in windows 10 help with that? > pike should work on it, though gtk support won't (unless you get an X > server) so maybe a dealbreaker for you :-( >
Lacking GTK would be a killer; so would any additional complexity that lands on the end user, as they're already tending to balk at "install this .msi, then get this .zip and extract it, then double-click gypsum.pike". Also, doesn't help with all the people on Win 7/8. So it's probably going to stay with the native Windows builds for now. That said, though, I don't think the glob changes would break anything I do. ChrisA
