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| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote Re: Crossplaform release | #3 |
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If anyone does port this to windows, I would suggest doing it as a separate project from gtg with a decoupled release schedule.
We accepted work to make Inkscape cross-platform, but now when we want to release, the release frequently gets delayed because of release blocker bugs that only affect the Windows version. There are few Windows-based Inkscape developers so it is hard to find people to fix those bugs. People love being able to install and run Inkscape on Windows when we put out new releases, but having it be crossplatform makes release management really frustrating. And lots of Windows users means lots and lots of windows-specific bug reports clogging up the bug tracker.
So my advice is stay focused on making gtg really good on Linux, and let someone else maintain a Windows port if they want, with its own release schedule, separate tracker for bug reports, etc.