[Koha-devel] Share Koha 3.10 for windows with community

[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

With the release of 3.14.0 very shortly, I think you may wish to rethink providing 3.10.x to your users. I can’t speak for the community as a whole, but my feeling is that the lack of ease in upgrading and staying current is something we do not want to encourage. Additionally, XP, Vista, Windows 8.1 are not server operating systems. It would be bad to provide a product that is intended for a server environment to run on a less secure, non-server operating system.

Of course, curiousity has me wondering: is this running natively in windows, is this cygwin, or perhaps a virtual machine? Natively in windows would be interesting, but the problem is how will they keep it current? Each month, or whenever a security release is done, or even every 6 months when a new major release with enhancements is done, someone is going to have to repackage it all over again. It really is best to teach users how to use a Debian based operating system, so the users can keep current.

Just my thoughts on the matter.
Grace, Peace, Mercy, and Love,
Mark Tompsett
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