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[richard terry]

On Wednesday 21 March 2012 06:05:35 Benoît Minisini wrote:

Hopefully windows will die out one day....... and anyone buying a mac probably 
has rocks in their brain anyway...

Viva Linux

Richard

> Le 20/03/2012 16:27, Rob Kudla a écrit :
> > ...
> > Someone did get the Gambas 1.x interpreter ported,
> > if I remember correctly, but porting gb.qt (at the time gb.gtk wasn't
> > mature) was problematic due to Windows having no X server. So it would
> > run command-line "hello world" type stuff but that was about it.
> >
> > Rob
> 
> I did that. Trying to compile and run Gambas on Windows through Cygwin.
> 
> But it was too difficult. Mainly because Windows XP has missing features
> at the OS level to property emulate the Unix behaviour, so some Windows
> specific code would be needed.
> 
> I don't have the time to write Windows specific code. Moreover, I don't
> want to spend one more minute on a operating system I dislike and I
> don't care anymore.
> 
> I prefer studying theater (for example), playing music, or developing
> Gambas on Linux.
> 
> And a Gambas port is important, it would be Android. Not Windows.
> 
> Regards,
>