Re: Discontinuing Windows Builds

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, Morten Welinder wrote:

> I have decided to stop releasing and distributing Windows binaries of 
> Gnumeric.
>
> The main reason is that I am uncomfortable with crash reports I see --
> crashes that are unlikely to be the fault of Gnumeric, but rather
> something in Gtk+ and lower.  I haven't observed these crashes myself
> (not that I use the Windows builds much) thus making it very hard for
> me to debug. [...]

Fair enough. However, one point may be worth mentioning: I've found that 
with "my" application, gretl, while maintaining a Windows build is a PITA 
it does sometimes serve a useful "canary in the mine" role.

When a user reports a crash on Windows that I can't reproduce on Linux my 
first reaction is that it's not gretl's fault, yet sometimes it is: when I 
dig deeper I find a bug that somehow wasn't triggered on Linux. Of course 
I can't say how applicable this is to Gnumeric.

Allin Cottrell