Re: Discontinuing Windows Builds
- From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>
- To: Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>
- Cc: Gnumeric Mailing List <gnumeric-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Discontinuing Windows Builds
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
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
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