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I gather there is a lot of skepticism about Microsoft's
announcement. <br>
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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. <br>
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I suppose at some level of abstraction, Sugar could be viewed as a
gtk-3 app.<br>
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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. <br>
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Tony<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/16/2016 10:12 AM, Samuel
Greenfeld wrote:<br>
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<div>A more direct way to support Windows would be to use the
Windows port of the GTK toolkit.<br>
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This has been done before:<br>
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href="https://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2014/01/29/developing-gtk-3-apps-with-python-on-windows/">https://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2014/01/29/developing-gtk-3-apps-with-python-on-windows/</a><br>
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A GTK expert might be able to point us to the current preferred
approach.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Sean
DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at
1:59 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This new
capability is intended to eliminate the need for
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<div class="gmail_extra">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">By the way MS has a long
history of distributing a Unix-compatible command
line. <span>They purchased Interix</span> 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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">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.<span
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<div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br>
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