I would think that having this work on more platforms would also draw more developers which would help everyone, i.e. it's really a win-win, but if someone only wants to build software for some platform for whatever reason why would anyone care?
I'm sure they care. The point I was trying to make is that if someone builds free software and intentionally limit support to a certain platform then people complaining about that doesn't really make sense.
On the other hand if you care about your free software attracting more users (some of whom could be developers who help push the software forward for everyone's benefit) then you should aim to target as many platforms as possible. I think there's a good correlation between successful open source products and the number of platforms they support.
Reading the blog and the comments (and the un-pulled GitHub pull request with changes to build under Windows) it seems the tone is that the developers aren't strongly motivated to get this working on Windows. They're entitled to their opinion, it's their software ... I just think they're thinking about this the wrong way. They seem to be thinking why should we do all this work for a platform we don't care about and carry the porting effort and the maintenance burden on our shoulders. Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines or this is reminding me of other similar situations...
> I just think they're thinking about this the wrong way. They seem to be thinking why should we do all this work for a platform we don't care about and carry the porting effort and the maintenance burden on our shoulders.
But they do not intentionally limit support to other stuff. These are people working for their own pleasure, creating stuff that they need. They are not a company which creates stuff for money and needs to cater to its (spoiled?) users.
Users of this software are the developers themselves, and and anyone else who is pleased with the creation. And, for free!
You can even change the creation to your own liking, so, if you need a Windows build, why you don't step in?
