Getting into development, ideas about Windows instructions

[dr.jam.jenkins]

Hi. I’m a retired software engineer, so my coding/tech skills may be a little rusty. I tried earlier following the windows instructions for getting my development environment started (Getting started on Windows | FreeSewing) but it didn’t entirely work. Today I pivoted to running the development environment via Linux within VirtualBox and it worked like a charm. Is anyone opposed to me suggesting that people developing on Windows might do better to develop in Linux via VirtualBox?

Also, I was able to generate a pull request today: sorting measurements from head to toe instead of alphabetically. As I regularly teach workshops that use FreeSewing, this is more intuitive and faster for most of my students when taking measurements. #904 - Be able to sort measurement edits from top to bottom or alphabetically - freesewing/freesewing - Codeberg.org

[jonathan_haas]

wsl might be the easier/better way to create a virtual linux environment than virtualbox, but it’s perhaps a good idea. Or we could fix the Windows issues. If you like to develop on windows, maybe you can create a patch.

I personally think the measurement ordering is a good idea, however I’d group the waist-to-X with the corresponding X measurement, since you’ll usually do these together.