Wubi dropped in 13.04

[Kevin Godby]

It looks like Wubi will be dropped for Ubuntu 13.04. You can read the discussion about this decision at <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-April/036993.html>.

If Wubi is indeed dropped, we should probably remove the Wubi instructions from the installation chapter and Wubi glossary entry.

[Hannie Dumoleyn (lafeber-dumoleyn)]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033316/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-drops-wubi-in-final-beta.html
According to this article it is dropped for Raring.
Instead of removing the Wubi section from Installation chapter, perhaps we could mention that the description of Wubi is valid for previous versions of Ubuntu? Or is that confusing.

[Carsten Gerlach (carsteng)]

Hi Hannie,

I think, we should not mention that Wubi is valid for previous versions. This will be confusing IMHO. We are writing for the raring release. If someone needs information for previous releases, then he can have a look in previous manuals.

Greetings, Carsten

[Kevin Godby (godbyk)]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn
<email address hidden> wrote:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033316/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-drops-wubi-in-final-beta.html
> According to this article it is dropped for Raring.
> Instead of removing the Wubi section from Installation chapter, perhaps we could mention that the description of Wubi is valid for previous versions of Ubuntu? Or is that confusing.

I think that would just be confusing. If the reader is installing an
older version of Ubuntu, they should read the corresponding manual.

—Kevin

[Carsten Gerlach (carsteng)]

I'm a bit confused. Yesterday (8th April) I downloaded the »raring-desktop-amd64.iso«. There is still the wubi.exe included. But with the final beta release (4th April) it should be removed? So do we have to remove this section from the manual, if they forget to remove it really from the iso?

Greetings, Carsten

[Hannie Dumoleyn (lafeber-dumoleyn)]

the wubi section is removed from 13.04 and will no langer be present in future versions of our manual.