Shorya Raj writes:
I think it may be prudent to consider adding a Windows specific mailing list regarding development on Windows,
One possibly-relevant anecdote. We had such a list for XEmacs, where the biggest contributor 1998-2005 was Windows-based. *He* preferred communicating via the main developers' list (the reasons given by others in this thread were among his reasons), and the "xemacs-winnt" list devolved into a forum for teaching newbies how to escape spaces in filenames, and the occasional flame from a Windows-oriented user who wanted XEmacs to change into a "modern GUI application" (like, say, Word, except for writing programs). It died a natural death (long before XEmacs development went dormant). N.B. The problem with modern GUI, of course, was that all the Windows- based developers who contributed any code to speak of liked the mouse- free pinky-welded-to-the-control-key UI (that's *why* they used Emacsen). This might not be such a stark contrast in Python, which doesn't pretend to be a UI. On the other hand, the Windows-oriented Python developers (several of whom are currently inactive for reasons unrelated to their preferred platform) have never seemed uncomfortable here.