> ... there's a very limited number of Windows devs who actually contribute back to open source projects (this may be a cultural thing coming from a proprietary

> ... there's a very limited number of Windows devs who actually contribute back to open source projects (this may be a cultural thing coming from a proprietary OS). > > Additionally, supporting Windows is a bit painful because there isn't as much free tooling available, e.g. doing automated Windows testing in travis-ci is not an option I believe the second influences the first, plus the project maintainer needs to share the opinion that releasing on Windows is worth the inevitable project changes required to do so. I have seen more than my fair share of pull requests sit idle because "meh, can't be bothered". Regarding the travis-ci item separately, I am hoping that the work that Vagrant is doing toward being able to provision fresh virtual machine instances on Windows will provide some hope. I do fully appreciate that just provisioning them isn't the whole story, but it's a major hurdle IMHO.