Dominus wrote:For expecting nothing you sure post often and sometimes lengthy about it 😉
I did a substantial amount of testing using Taewoong's DOSBox builds; that's what lead to most of my posts. If there was a current Win32 binary available, I'd be doing more testing.
90% of all desktops are running Windows. Now, as a developer, you can look at that figure in a few different ways. One way is to say to yourself "well, I develop in Linux so I'm only going to provide Linux builds. If those Windoze losers want to test then they can RTFM and learn 2 compile". Or perhaps, you could say "gee, if I don't maintain a Win32 build then right off the bat I'm statistically losing 90% (give or take) of my potential testers, so I'm liable to miss out on a lot of feedback, some of which may actually be helpful".
I suppose neither perspective is inherently more valid than the other, but I believe the latter viewpoint is liable to produce a better end product. But of course, I'm not the developer on this project and that's just my opinion on it. Time permitting, I may actually take another crack at source code compiling; surely, it'd be helpful to know my way around the process for my retro hobbies. Even so, were I developing a DOSBox variant myself, I'd maintain a Win32 build, but that's just me!