<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It's hard to make an informed decision without knowing the usage stats of Wubi. If it's quite low then I expect there'd be little impact, but if it's popular then it's taking a low-risk installation method away from users who might otherwise not have tried Ubuntu. Does Canonical have any statistics on this?</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Re. the bugs. I had a look at "Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO" <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770</a> and found that the fix is a one-liner configuration file change (in data/isolist.ini).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The fix for "13.04 installer doesn't create user account" <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704</a> could be to simply remove the disk-image installs from 13.04. This again is a two line removal from the same configuration file.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I've patched and tested both 12.04.2 and 13.04 with these changes to confirm they work.<br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Re. Windows 8: that may not be solvable right now, but I expect there are still many more BIOS-based computers out there than UEFI. And the regular dual boot for UEFI has many problems as well. Wubi could probably be smarter about checking whether Windows is booting through UEFI and exit gracefully prior to downloading the ISO/diskimage.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Regards,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">bcbc</div><div><br></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:59:35 -0700<br>
From: Steve Langasek <<a href="mailto:steve.langasek@ubuntu.com">steve.langasek@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Subject: Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release<br>
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Dear developers,<br>
<br>
Recent bug reports suggest that the Ubuntu installer for Windows, Wubi, is<br>
not currently in very good shape for a release:<br>
<br>
13.04 installer doesn't create user account<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704</a><br>
<br>
Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770</a><br>
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<br>
Combined with the fact that Wubi has not been updated to work with Windows 8<br>
(bug #1125604), and the focus on mobile client over desktop, the Foundations<br>
team does not expect Wubi to be in a releasable state for 13.04.<br>
<br>
I am therefore proposing to drop Wubi from the 13.04 release, starting<br>
immediately with the upcoming Beta. This will save our testers from<br>
spending their time testing an image that will not have developers working<br>
on fixing the bugs they find, and spares our users from using an image for<br>
13.04 that is not up to Ubuntu's standards of quality.<br>
<br>
If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of Wubi so that it<br>
can be released with 13.04 (or if not with 13.04, then with a future<br>
release), I would encourage them to start by looking at the abovementioned<br>
bugs and preparing patches, then talking to the release team.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
--<br>
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS<br>
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.<br>
Ubuntu Developer <a href="http://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/</a><br>
<a href="mailto:slangasek@ubuntu.com">slangasek@ubuntu.com</a> <a href="mailto:vorlon@debian.org">vorlon@debian.org</a><br>
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