From: Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No Guile on Windows?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:41:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200724204115.51b99302@interia.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello,
Dnia 2020-07-24, o godz. 16:00:56
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> napisał(a):
> However, my understanding is that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
> has the potential to make all of us happy.
This is fine as far as we're talking about proprietary Windows, but
this isn't good for software freedom generally - there's ReactOS
(https://reactos.org/) - a free Windows clone that is about to reach
beta stage. It is unlikely they're going to implement WSL there and
therefore Guile will be not usable on this platform. This could
potentially stop Guile users on Windows from switching to ReactOS.
If Guile were running natively on Windows, it would only benefit free
software - more Guile users, more people being interested in Guix and
more people switching to free alternatives.
If no current Guile maintainer is interested in porting it to Windows,
we could at least let people know we're looking for someone who does.
It could be a GSoC proposal, Outreachy something, etc.
Jan Wielkiewicz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 6:18 My Guile Hacker Handbook Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 6:46 ` test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 15:08 ` a French mailing list (was: test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook)) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-23 20:34 ` Marc Chantreux
2020-07-23 7:41 ` My Guile Hacker Handbook Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-07-23 9:17 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-23 10:32 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-07-23 14:09 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-24 0:58 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-07-24 0:06 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-24 7:22 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 9:32 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-24 11:50 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-24 16:25 ` Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 23:33 ` Mike Gran
[not found] ` <878sf9812f.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-07-24 14:20 ` No Guile on Windows? Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2020-07-24 17:46 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-07-24 17:47 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 18:41 ` Jan Wielkiewicz [this message]
2020-07-25 3:48 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) David Pirotte
2020-07-25 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-25 13:56 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-25 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-28 2:52 ` Christopher Lam
2020-07-25 16:49 ` Mike Gran
2020-07-25 16:33 ` Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2020-07-25 21:38 ` No Guile on Windows? Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-24 6:47 ` No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook) divoplade
2020-07-24 11:38 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
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