[Sugar-devel] The future of Sugar on XO-1s

[Dave Crossland]

On 12 April 2016 at 08:16, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> wrote:
>
>> One development that seems to be ignored on these lists is Microsoft's
>> announcement that it will support Bash on Windows 10. As I understand it,
>> the goal is to be able to run Ubuntu programs on Windows 10 using a
>> standard 'short-cut'. If so, it is possible that Sugar can run as a native
>> Windows application within months.
>>
>
>
> I've been running bash (and gawk and other GNU tools, and ffmpeg, and
> imagemagick, etc) on Windows for ten years now with the awesome cygwin
> package. I'm not sure how the MS offer will improve on that. The beta
> version has bad security for example (user permissions are root, within a
> sandbox). My understanding is that these are commandline tools only, there
> is no graphical support and none is planned. I'd like to be wrong.
>

fontforge is a unix/x11 c program, and the windows installer bundles a X
server and starts and stops it around the application, so it 'just works.'
Perhaps something similar can work for Sugar.
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