-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22-Jan-2019 10:00 +0100, Charles E Campbell wrote:
> Hello: > > I had two Windows machines; the big one's motherboard died and the > other lost windows during an attempt to update (just the) linux > partition (it had been a dual boot). > > So, I'd appreciate some Windows developers help to improve netrw. > I've got the latest development copy of netrw on my website > (http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW v165a). Hello Charles, First, thank you for keeping up your plugin maintenance over the years (it's probably been decades by now :-) Assuming that you've just lost the Windows hardware, but still have license(s), running Windows in a small VM on Linux can be a good alternative. VirtualBox is free, and spinning up a small Windows instance on demand doesn't take too many resources. (Even my 6 year-old laptop can do that.) I suggest that because solely relying on co-developers for platform support is hard, at least in my experience. That notwithstanding, having other people join in is really helpful. For that, I would recommend to move your plugin development to GitHub (or alternatives, but as it's the top site and Vim and many plugins are there, that's a compelling argument). It may initially create more work (you need to adapt your workflow, people will start submitting all sorts of issues and problems), but it's far superior a process than putting a dev snapshot on a website and emailing around patches. I hope you'll find a setup that suits you well. Keep up the good work! - -- regards, ingo - -- -- Ingo Karkat -- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- /^-- http://ingo-karkat.de/ -- -- https://www.vim.org/account/profile.php?user_id=9713 -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJcRuzGAAoJEA7ziXlAzQ/v2EYH/jOOUe2tQCTTjYvAa8qL0zEH +R2GtmZm6gWRSHaU5JZufyFlPLDhG/hvwd92eEa6EyBNOnpdiCsb8rkVm4pe0MgH E0TwSiiijsCNlB4sAWuyPS2OIGOoHf0pmY/5Es9NmMbfrayX4dgXSxCS2jWluW/C lq9gOlrOgIns8rdhtWVl3mnNhTXqKQfG5wl7Z7LMH1kfsGnbgMe/gRwfpcDexDdY hsRUhbJqHOjBcByuSpndjH8+Nr3/PPqQ8slTdzTvoRbCjVcgjYlCHQPyPUz31Qmh C1I76i4yKxqUrsd1+ZYeTt3X0Q51ZCzIQ7/xolc+pScZoRrblW9+Yd0X7c5oJBM= =lE94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
