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

[Tony Anderson]

I gather there is a lot of skepticism about Microsoft's announcement.

I was intrigued by the marketing opportunity to show potential sponsors 
of deployments that they can run Sugar on their laptop as a Microsoft 
program. As I understood the announcement, it should be possible to set 
up a normal Windows 'shortcut' that would run Sugar directly from an 
installed Ubuntu version.

I suppose at some level of abstraction, Sugar could be viewed as a gtk-3 
app.

What would be interesting is for someone to make a version of Sugar that 
installs and runs as a Windows program as WUBI used to do for Ubuntu.

Tony

On 04/16/2016 10:12 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:sdaly.be at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Tony Anderson
>     <tony_anderson at usa.net <mailto: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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