+1
We want to support Windows!
But ... 64 bits, FFI++, ARM ... well you know. Gimme 10 Millions or just
one million
and the situation will be really different.
Stef
By the way I am all for COM for Pharo, the issue is that 2/3 of our
community are MacOS and Linux users , I dont even remember the last time we
had a Windows only topic in the mailing list. Modern languages generally
avoid using OS specific libraries, the last exceptions be C# and Swift and
C# definetly looks like it will be fully cross platform soon enough (it
already is because of Mono).
I wouldn't state such affirmations without a proper surveying.
My latest survey related with RDBMS support [1] showed that the users
of Windows are on par with the users of MacOS.
I am a Windows user, who runs most of the Pharo images inside Linux
VMs not because I don't want to run them in Windows, but because the
current support of Windows is somewhat limited.
Having COM support for Pharo in a Windows environment would be a big
enabler to a lot of current users of Smalltalk that don't use Pharo.
Esteban A. Maringolo
[1]
https://medium.com/@emaringolo/pharo-rdbms-support-survey-results-9c8f640878db#.ym049enul
