> It may be better to go help out some other free software project that already had the misfortune of working on that platform...
I understand their points about maintenance, but telling someone to go work on something else rather than keeping an experimental branch around, sheesh.
As someone who appreciates open source and works primarily on Windows I really wish they had a better attitude. Take a look at Rust or Elixir, fantastic communities and the software is better for it. I'm sure that Darktable has some interesting things but based on what I saw in that thread I think I'll be sticking to Lightroom.
Edit: I read a little more, looks like the devs were upset because windows isn't a free platform, and they didn't want darktable's reputation marred by a buggy port.
> This will be very bad for darktable reputation
- https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...
...has anyone here ever used this approach with nix apps that need to run on Windows "natively"? Writing a powershell script to silently install boot2docker with this special docker image wouldn't be too difficult. The DarkTable folks don't seem interesting in maintaining Win builds so this may be the perfect workaround.
NOTE: I realize that `File > Open Image` may be non-trivial, but surely there's a way to mount a host<->guest folder (e.g.: When using the application, the workspace is located in `C:\Users\$whoami\Documents\DarkTable\
.jpg`)- B2D installs a Virtualbox instance, but Hyper-V is on. VBox can't run besides Hyper-V.
- How do you configure the resource usage for the VM?Something like Darktable requires a lot of resources
- How do you manage shared folders? VBox shared folder performance is really bad compared to native
- Do you install an X server as well?
Anyway -- it's just a bad idea.
I guess a user that would be comfortable with b2d or vbox would just have those running anyways!
Note: for you question about X, please check out https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...
