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Originally Posted by philm
Sorry, nothing personal here, I just need to say it because it happens too often:
- When will be the time to ask USERS to build on Windows, like for Linux USERS? Or are we second zone citizens?
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When up to date Windows installers aren't easy to provide. The rainbow of Linux distros don't make it simple
at all for us to provide a binary distribution of Sigil, so we rely on the various Repo maintainers to do so for their users.
I get the frustration, but this is very much a Linux Repo maintainer problem. There is no reason Ubuntu can't offer the latest Sigil to their users. Many other distros do. Bureaucracy and dogma are most often the reasons they don't (couched in statements touting "stability").
And no, you're not second class citizens. Quite the opposite in fact. As a Linux user, you have the ability to easily build custom versions of many open-source software applications with tools that are provided by your operating system right out of the box. Windows user don't have that luxury.
I do all of my Sigil development on Linux (Kevin does his on Mac), so neither of us are Windows "homers" when it comes to this sort of thing. The only thing we might be guilty of is assuming that those who have adopted Linux has their OS of choice have a bit of an edge over Windows users when it comes to compiling stuff.