Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Sure, it *can* be. But that doesn't mean I can rely on my end users
to be able to do that. Currently I can ship a single 32-bit MSVCRT
binary and be sure it'll work on any version of Windows that matters.
It'll also work in Wine or ReactOS.
Release build should be tested on Windows. It is easy to build and
test
natively with msys2 nowadays, or build for other targets. Why not use that?
Because I don't consider Microsoft Windows to be a suitable development
platform. I have Windows virtual machines for testing but they expire
every 90 days. Indeed, one of my chores for today is to reinstall
three Windows VMs that have expired. I don't want to then have to
reinstall a development environment when I already have everything I
need on Fedora.
Ron