Hi Victor,

We do highly recommend getting VirtualBox and installing Ubuntu inside
it. There is said that one can use containers for Mac and Windows, but
I don't know them well enough to advise or script to make them work.

Hope you're able to join us despite the os barrier.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On 14 August 2017 at 01:52, Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarnason@...400...> wrote:
> Victor you could also try the Linux subsystem for Windows 10:
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide
>
> Guess it depends on what is in those scripts if it will work.
>
>
>
> Den 14 aug. 2017 06:44 skrev "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 10:22:37PM -0700, Victor Westmann wrote:
>> > Hi Martin,
>> >
>> > I was able to clone the inkscape-web project to my machine.
>> > But the 3rd and 4th commands I believe are only targeted to Linux
>> > machines
>> > and not Windows.
>> >
>> > ./utils/init
>> > ./utils/run [<domain>:<port>]
>> >
>> > Do you know how can I run those on Windows?
>>
>> Possibly you may want to look at how to run a Linux virtual machine on
>> Windows, and run the commands inside that.
>>
>> >
>> > --Victor Westmann
>> >
>> > 2017-08-11 9:15 GMT-07:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
>> >
>> > > Hi Victor,
>> > >
>> > > You can start here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web/wikis/
>> > > development/
>> > >
>> > > Let me know if you need any help, I'll be on IRC #inkscape-devel if
>> > > you have questions.
>> > >
>> > > Best Regards, Martin Owens
>> > >
>> > > On 11 August 2017 at 11:39, Victor Westmann
>> > > <victor.westmann@...400...>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > Hi Bryce and Martin,
>> > > >
>> > > > I read the wiki page on Gitlab. Is beautifully organized. Thanks for
>> > > that.
>> > > >
>> > > > Where should I start? How do I check my initial access to the
>> > > > website?
>> > > > What are the help options available for newbies on the website (not
>> > > > for
>> > > the
>> > > > application)?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --Victor Westmann
>> > > >
>> > > > 2017-08-11 7:03 GMT-07:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Thanks Victor,
>> > > >>
>> > > >> It would be great to have your help with the website. Let me know
>> > > >> if
>> > > >> you need help getting set up, I try and keep it accessible
>> > > >> (although
>> > > >> it sometimes breaks, so let me know right away if you have issues)
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Anyway. Let me know how you'd like to help.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Martin,
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On 11 August 2017 at 01:53, Victor Westmann
>> > > >> <victor.westmann@...400...>
>> > > >> wrote:
>> > > >> > Hi Martin,
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > I don't have a way to try this since I only have windows machines
>> > > >> > at
>> > > >> > home
>> > > >> > but I am willing to help in other ways If I can. :)
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > The website download improved so much over the years! It is way
>> > > >> > more
>> > > >> > practical than it was before.
>> > > >> > I was just wondering if we could modernize it somehow... but I
>> > > >> > know
>> > > that
>> > > >> > there's a lot of intelligence under the hood.
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > I thought it was a nice example, the VLC one, because it auto
>> > > >> > detects
>> > > >> > the
>> > > >> > operating system and architecture (like blender). But it is also
>> > > >> > very
>> > > >> > nice
>> > > >> > to look at the libre office download page example
>> > > >> > (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/)
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > What is nice from the blender download page example is that it
>> > > >> > auto
>> > > >> > detects
>> > > >> > the operating system and architecture
>> > > >> > (https://www.blender.org/download/)
>> > > >> > which also resembles the Download page of Google Chrom
>> > > >> > (https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html). One
>> > > >> > page
>> > > I
>> > > >> > really think its beautiful is the Krita's download page example
>> > > >> > (https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/) is there something
>> > > >> > we
>> > > can
>> > > >> > sell related to Inkscape (wheter it's professional support or
>> > > >> > custom
>> > > >> > made
>> > > >> > development ) that could be offered at download the download
>> > > >> > page? I
>> > > >> > feel we
>> > > >> > could spread something from the project in this section since it
>> > > >> > is
>> > > the
>> > > >> > one
>> > > >> > with most visibility when new releases are published.
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > Just a couple of ideas..
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > --Victor Westmann
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> > 2017-08-10 22:22 GMT-07:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
>> > > >> >>
>> > > >> >> On 10 August 2017 at 21:33, Victor Westmann <
>> > > victor.westmann@...400...>
>> > > >> >> wrote:
>> > > >> >> > Could we try to use something like this:
>> > > >> >> > https://mths.be/platform
>> > > >> >> >
>> > > >> >> > To offer the user something like this:
>> > > >> >> > https://www.videolan.org?
>> > > >> >> > (please
>> > > >> >> > note the big blue button)
>> > > >> >> >
>> > > >> >> > Just a suggestion :-)
>> > > >> >> >
>> > > >> >>
>> > > >> >> Thanks for the link Victor,
>> > > >> >>
>> > > >> >> The python implementation is pretty good as far as os detection
>> > > >> >> goes.
>> > > >> >> It does specific things like parses out known linux variants. A
>> > > >> >> lot
>> > > of
>> > > >> >> the bog standard os detectors are rather crappy with Linux
>> > > >> >> detection.
>> > > >> >> Do you have any trials on how good this js library is for Linux
>> > > >> >> distros?
>> > > >> >>
>> > > >> >> We're also parsing out 64 vs 32 bit.
>> > > >> >>
>> > > >> >> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>> > > >> >
>> > > >> >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>>
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