Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-05 Thread Martin Pecka
Yes, the whole WSL is a hack. And everything using it inherits that. I see it similarly to Wine. Some hate it. Some provide official Linux support of Windows programs using Wine. I understand both standpoints. What should be made available? You installation instructions? What do you mean with

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-05 Thread Jan Ingwer Baer
There are some solutions to run different Linux-Distros in the WSL: Run any Distro in WSL > https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/992 WSL-Distribution-Switcher > https://github.com/RoliSoft/WSL-Distribution-Switcher "The purpose of this project is to let you easily download and insta

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-05 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2017, 23:38:06 CET schrieb Martin Pecka: > Thanks for your unaffected answer, Tobias. > > As a Windows unstable tester verified, with the new 16.04 subsystem the > installation is as easy as it is in normal Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA. Would > you consider it a hack even then? Yes

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-04 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2017, 21:32:05 CET schrieb Martin Pecka: > Hello DT developers. Hi. > I know there is some discussion about Windows ports of DT. And I even > know there is a PR that looks promising and is adding Windows support > the "proper" and user-friendly way. However, it still seems

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Joel Brunetti
Martin, I'm not a Darktable developer but I do subscribe to the mailing list and see how often people bring up the idea of a Windows port on this list. I'm sure the developers are tired of dealing with this so let me share with you my understanding if this and their frustration. Surely in your se

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Martin Pecka
I wasn't sure if it was irony or not, but now I am... And I'm sad, because I've brought a completely new viewpoint in the Windows-Darktable problem. Why not take this in a constructive way? Should we (Windows users) create a fork of DT with its own webpage and issue tracker?

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Roman Lebedev
btw, from now on, each time such mail appears in our maillsts, i'll be pushing the moment i start looking at that pr by one month. On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Roman Lebedev wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Martin Pecka wrote: >> Hello DT developers. >> >> I know there is some discu

Re: [darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Roman Lebedev
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Martin Pecka wrote: > Hello DT developers. > > I know there is some discussion about Windows ports of DT. And I even know > there is a PR that looks promising and is adding Windows support the > "proper" and user-friendly way. However, it still seems to me you're >

[darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Martin Pecka
Hello DT developers. I know there is some discussion about Windows ports of DT. And I even know there is a PR that looks promising and is adding Windows support the "proper" and user-friendly way. However, it still seems to me you're undecided if the Windows port is a wanted "feature" or not.

[darktable-dev] An effort-less way to provide DT to advanced Windows users

2017-01-03 Thread Martin Pecka
Hello DT developers. I know there is some discussion about Windows ports of DT. And I even know there is a PR that looks promising and is adding Windows support the "proper" and user-friendly way. However, it still seems to me you're undecided if the Windows port is a wanted "feature" or not.