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natosha_bard

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    Comment #9800494

    The Editor needs to do all kinds of complex window management, and other stuff, and also uses all sorts of 3rd party middleware (like Enlighten, for global illumination) that would…

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    Comment #9800434

    Hi! I'm glad to see that the post is promoting constructive dialog about what does or doesn't make portable code, which is what the point actually was (in addition to shedding a bi…

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    Comment #9800430

    So based on all of the feedback we've gotten, I'm going to look at making a platform-agnostic installer as well as a .deb package, for people who want to run Unity on non-Ubuntu in…

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    Comment #9794233

    Unity only uses native UI systems for Window management, input handling, and menus/file dialogs. The rest of Unity's UI is intentionally written in Unity's own GUI. We chose GTK ov…

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    Comment #9794222

    il2cpp has advantages other than licensing (Mono is indeed open-source, but it is LGPL so it can only be used on platforms that comply with the LGPL; Unity runs on various non-LGPL…

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    Comment #9794201

    Right, it's in the category of "things I wish we would have done back then" because it would have been easy to solve: we could have simply had everyone install OS X (which is what …

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    Comment #9794186

    > I don't think the problem is having case insensitive file systems, the problem is having both on different platforms. A similar problem as with different endians. If everything w…

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    Comment #9794169

    I can totally sympathize, and we'd like to support every distribution. :-( But the simple statistics show that we get the most bang for our buck by supporting Ubuntu because of its…