Re: Discontinuing Windows Builds

[Rex Couture <rex levee wustl edu>]

On 8/27/2014 5:55 AM, Gour wrote:
> have you considered to simply run Gnumeric under virtualbox or or some 
> other virtual machine?

> These days it's very easy/quickly to pick some Linux distro and then 
> have Gnumeric running and sharing data with the hosting Windows OS. 
> Sincerely, Gour 

    Thanks, that's a good idea, but it's unnecessary in my case, 
because I have installation files for four previous Windows versions.  
At least some of those run perfectly well as far as I can tell, and I 
don't want to add complexity.

    It might be helpful to have access to the other versions, but more 
importantly, I just think the general public should have access.  It's 
certainly unfortunate when a major open-source program simply disappears 
without warning.  I don't know if there's an explicit promise that 
programs will be available indefinitely, but that's certainly a common 
expectation.  This might come as a shock to someone who was planning to 
use the program, or who is currently using the program on one computer 
but no longer has the installation file.  And while the Linux builds are 
still available, that option is not always practical and readily 
available to all users.

Rex Couture