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

[Samuel Greenfeld]

A more direct way to support Windows would be to use the Windows port of
the GTK toolkit.

This has been done before:
https://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2014/01/29/developing-gtk-3-apps-with-python-on-windows/

A GTK expert might be able to point us to the current preferred approach.


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> wrote:
>
>> This new capability is intended to eliminate the need for cygwin
>
>
>
> No doubt MS likes any initiative against Red Hat. I think they want to
> simplify server administration in a mixed-OS environment from a Windows
> console (ssh, rsync and the like) which is why default (and apparently
> only) permission profile is root.
>
> By the way MS has a long history of distributing a Unix-compatible command
> line. They purchased Interix in 1999 which later became Windows Services
> for Unix, and there has been support for it until... Windows 10. The funny
> part is, last time I checked about 8 years ago, there was GNU software in
> the package yet MS did not provide the corresponding source code, in
> violation of the license.
>
> My default shell in Cygwin is GNU bash v4.3 and in my day job it's a boon
> to inherit Windows drive mappings at the command line.
>
> Sean
>
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