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Re: [gedit-list] A proposal to drop OS X and Windows support

Hi Corey,

other gnome apps like have ports: evince, meld, gitg just to mention some I use.
Most importantly, there is an active push to make sure the gtk platform is portable: for instance glib gained gitlab CI that builds every commit on Windows, the port to Meson of most of the projects makes it easier then ever to compile on Mac and Windows, the Gstreamer folks have a working infrastructure to deliver packages on Windows, Mac and (I think) android.

If I look back at gedit development, making sure the application was portable was largely beneficial to the Linux version itself:
 - it forced us to make clean design decisions: for instance now gnome decided to drop appmenu, and we have a system that can easily adapt to that case
 - having gedit makes it much easier to ensure gtksourceview works on Windows (and that is definitely a goal, since there are many downstream applications that use it)
 - even if gedit is used by a very small percentage of people on Windows and Mac, the absolute number is still quite big: it happened in the past that we received larger feedback on specific bugs on the Windows port than we had for linux

Are the ports actively hindering development? I would very much like to see them continue and in fact I end up installing gedit on Windows when I have to use it, just because it is so familiar to me.

With that said, these days I am just a loyal user, so do not take my opinion as a veto or anything.

Thanks a lot for working on gedit!

Ciao,
Paolo

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:48 PM Corey Daley via gedit-list <gedit-list gnome org> wrote:
  It looks as though the OS X and Windows versions of gedit don't get updated often (if at all).  I would like to propose dropping support for them, as there are already many cross-platform text editors available for those platforms.

Are there any/many other GNOME applications that are cross platform?

Are there other reasons to keep them around that I am missing?

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Corey Daley

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