Re: Deprecating formal support for Windows Platform

[Tal Liron]

My opinion is that we should keep Windows support.

Beyond the fact that Azure is a popular cloud platform, testing on Windows
keeps us honest for our Python work, making sure that we're writing
platform-neutral code.

The AppVeyor tests are broken for now, but I'm confident we will eventually
fix them.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Nadeau 
wrote:

>
> Aria-Tosca Community:
>
> I wanted to take a formal poll of the community in terms of
> our official support for the Windows platform.  While the project should
> continue running as the project is a python package, this is more around
> the logistics/efforts/resources we as a project have to invest in
> maintaining support for that platform; specifically, our CI and testing
> as well as documentation around installation, etc...
>
> What prompted me to think about this is that over the past week or
> so, we
> have encountered a number of strange CI failures that have required
> considerable time
> spent on trying to get things working.  As some of you might have gathered
> from
> slack/email, Tal spent a ton of time trying to fixing the latest issues and
> was still not able to completely resolve them which is why the current
> plan is that committers have to do manual tests, which have their own
> associated costs.  As a team we have limited resources to work on the
> project,
> so I wanted to make sure we are focusing them all on moving towards release
> 1.0.
>
> As a result earlier this week I asked people in/around the project
> informally
> and found no one using or developing on that platform, so I wanted to
> ask here formally if anyone is interested in our continued support
> of the platform or not.  If you are, please indicate in as much detail
> as you can as to why/how.  I would also like to here if you are not
> explicitly,
> but if I don’t, I will assume that people aren’t.
>
> Also, if you do not feel like you can post that to the public
> list, please contact me offline and I will keep your responses anonymous.
> I would like to gather this input over the course of the next week so that
> we can make a decision on this by about Friday, November
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> —Tom
>
>

Deprecating formal support for Windows Platform

[Thomas Nadeau]

Aria-Tosca Community:

I wanted to take a formal poll of the community in terms of
our official support for the Windows platform.  While the project should
continue running as the project is a python package, this is more around
the logistics/efforts/resources we as a project have to invest in 
maintaining support for that platform; specifically, our CI and testing
as well as documentation around installation, etc...

What prompted me to think about this is that over the past week or so, 
we 
have encountered a number of strange CI failures that have required 
considerable time 
spent on trying to get things working.  As some of you might have gathered from
slack/email, Tal spent a ton of time trying to fixing the latest issues and
was still not able to completely resolve them which is why the current
plan is that committers have to do manual tests, which have their own 
associated costs.  As a team we have limited resources to work on the project,
so I wanted to make sure we are focusing them all on moving towards release
1.0.

As a result earlier this week I asked people in/around the project 
informally 
and found no one using or developing on that platform, so I wanted to 
ask here formally if anyone is interested in our continued support
of the platform or not.  If you are, please indicate in as much detail
as you can as to why/how.  I would also like to here if you are not explicitly,
but if I don’t, I will assume that people aren’t. 

Also, if you do not feel like you can post that to the public
list, please contact me offline and I will keep your responses anonymous.
I would like to gather this input over the course of the next week so that
we can make a decision on this by about Friday, November 


Cheers,

—Tom