Linux support?

[shesek]

I would really like to play with btapp... any chance you could make Torque work on Linux?

[hemzaz]

+1

[Legogris]

+1. I don't think this has much chance of taking off before Linux is treated as a platform with at least as high priority as OS X or Windows.

[shesek]

Yes, especially if you want to attract developers to explore it and develop things around that. I really wanted to try btapp for a project I was working on, but had to give up due to the lack of Linux support.

[tyoc213]

I quite don't get it, but isn't http://btappjs.com/ pure javascript?

http://btappjs.com/getting-started.html

Or Im lost? I just want to try, havent do it.

[ulpian]

doesnt work through wine, hard to even install but even then tried running browser through wine with torque installed and did not work

[tyoc213]

I will suggest a VM with WIndows then :S??... haven't seen that https://torque.bittorrent.com/Torque.pkg is only OSX and Windows?

My suggestion for the developers... if the original sources for the plugin are in C, then try to use https://github.com/kripken/emscripten and perhaps http socket API (maybe?... see to the future and more wide usage of those technologies if you don't want to get stuck on plugin maintenance...)... and stop trying to maintain a plugin all the way.

Or liberate the source as a permissive OSS :).

[tyoc213]

Thought I will love Linux support, I just found this: http://www.modern.ie/ they are from M$... so they are OK to use.

Shame that there is no Linux plugin.

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[tyoc213]

And google and FF will be pushing to eliminate plugins :P... (this is just starting)

• http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html
• https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/
• https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/29/putting-users-in-control-of-plugins/

So you can go to future and support HTML5 (there is a option up there for C on javascript) and in that point... you will support Linux, OSX and Windows.... and others that are able to HTML5.

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