Even more if the users have not the slightest clue what’s going on. Maintaining a code base which none of the developers can run, test or debug is a nightmare. Followed by no longer adding an alpha channel to new layers. And now, well, let me phrase it this way: I strongly believe that porting GIMP to windows was the biggest mistake these guys ever made. I remember when GIMP was suddenly available for Windows (yes, I’m that old). Code wise it’s only a really small change, but the implications might be huge. The hard part is the question “Shall I commit it to git?”. It took me about two days of hacking to have our code in a shape which is eaten by mingw (I cross-compiled under Debian).
I managed to compile darktable for Windows. However, if you are a Windows user and feel easily offended, then stop reading now. Since a few people didn’t like that at all I want to assure you that this is no joke at all.
The last time I posted to this blog it was my April Fool’s Joke about a file manager (which happened to be just an embedded shell).
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