<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 April 2016 at 08:16, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">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.<span><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br>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. </div></div>