Re: [Gramps-devel] Windows 8 development

[jerome <rom...@ya...>]

Note, maybe you forgot to say if it is Windows 8, Pro or Windows RT?
 32 or 64 bit?


--- En date de : Dim 16.12.12, Enno Borgsteede <enn...@gm...> a écrit :

> De: Enno Borgsteede <enn...@gm...>
> Objet: Re: [Gramps-devel] Windows 8 development
> À: "jerome" <rom...@ya...>, "Gramps Development List" <gra...@li...>
> Date: Dimanche 16 décembre 2012, 14h52
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> > The virtual marchine seems to be the 'easier' way!
> > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2012/10/linux-foundation-uefi-secure-boot-system-open-source
> 
> Thank you for posting this link. I read a lot of tricks on a
> variety of forums, and they seem to be dangerous for people
> like me, who don't know much about this UEFI stuff. When you
> mess things up, Windows tells you to call for help, or to
> return your system, which is something that I'd rather not
> do, because I really like to manage my PC myself.
> 
> Switching UEFI off in the BIOS seems to help a bit
> sometimes, but I get the feeling that that also influences
> Windows 8 in a way that I don't still understand, so I think
> that I will follow your advice for now, or keep the old PC
> for development. It's still on my desk, so ...
> 
> > Also, for having gramps' environment (libs, binding)
> and trunk.
> > http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion#Installation
> 
> Thanks for that too. I didn't try trunk yet, but with this
> information, I feel more safe to try that some time.
> 
> Can you or anyone else tell me whether it is useful for the
> community to experiment with 3.4 on Windows 8? Some people
> say that apps in Windows 8 will make the classic desktop PC
> obsolete, and I know that Ancestry already has an app for
> Windows 8. It's still read-only, but I think that it will
> get the same editing capabilities as its Android
> counterpart.
> 
> And with that in mind, I suspect that spending any time on
> 3.4 for Windows 8 is sort of a waste, except for bug fixing
> of course.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Enno
> 
>