natosha_bard

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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 wouldn't work as being part of the runtime itself. The edito
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 bit of light about the state of porting Unity to Li
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 installations. We're probably going to still on
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 over QT for Linux because Unity 5.1 ships with
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 platforms). il2cpp combines ease-of-use (C#) for Unity dev
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 Unity was originally written on) on a case-s
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
> 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 were case insensitive, it wouldn't cause issues.
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by natosha_bard 11y ago
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 desktop market share. The great thing about the Linux