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eschwartz · 08-13-2015, 10:14 AM

Try asking Microsoft to support RT in a halfway reasonable manner.

Really, there was no good reason to require Windows RT to only run special-sauce Metro programs. linux has a strong presence on ARM devices, and most linux programs compile all right for ARM. calibre certainly does, with no changes whatsoever.

But Microsoft has locked down what you can do inside the Metro runtime, and for all intents and purposes I think it would qualify as supporting a new OS target.

It also can't even be considered until if and when python ever works on Metro -- but that is only planned (ish) for python3 and calibre uses python2.

08-13-2015, 10:14 AM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Try asking Microsoft to support RT in a halfway reasonable manner. Really, there was no good reason to require Windows RT to only run special-sauce Metro programs. linux has a strong presence on ARM devices, and most linux programs compile all right for ARM. calibre certainly does, with no changes whatsoever. But Microsoft has locked down what you can do inside the Metro runtime, and for all intents and purposes I think it would qualify as supporting a new OS target. It also can't even be considered until if and when python ever works on Metro -- but that is only planned (ish) for python3 and calibre uses python2. Last edited by eschwartz; 08-13-2015 at 10:21 AM.