Please add a BIG WARNING to not use win.meteor.com

[dandv]

Now that the official Windows preview has been out for more than a month, it would be high time to warn about that on win.meteor.com.

There are still instructions out there that have people install from win.meteor.com, to their demise. E.g. this guy on StackOverflow.

[steph643]

I have to disagree. Unlike the methods described on win.meteor.com, the official Windows preview still cannot be used in a professional environment. To me, the main pending problem is the performance issue. Hope this will be fixed soon.

[dandv]

The performance issue is being worked on at the very moment - down to 7 seconds per refresh.

The new Windows preview works with Meteor 1.0+. This one (and kudoz to Steve's and Tom's work), no longer does, which trips up users.

[stubailo]

I think we're in the middle of a weird transitional period - hopefully in a few weeks we can say the official port is the best way to use Meteor on Windows for sure, but right now there are tradeoffs.

[Slava]

I would wait until we release.

[dandv]

How about a banner saying "If you have problems installing packages, then install the official preview". ? Or something that points to the official preview at all. Some people don't even know it exists.

[stubailo]

I think we would like most people to have a good first impression of the official port, rather than coming away with the thought that meteor is slow or buggy. We just need a little more time to finish up and then we will tell everyone about it.

[dandv]

That makes sense. The problem is people who land at win.meteor.com apparently can't even install packages (see this.

If updating win.meteor.com with an alternative Windows port === tell everyone about it, then by all means, that should not be done. Otherwise, I'm not sure I see a point in having a knowingly broken Windows port (win.meteor.com) without a link to a Windows port that does work, albeit not perfectly.

BTW, the README should be updated. There was lots of progress made since the first Windows preview release, and warning the user about the slow build is better than the users being surprised.

[sdarnell]

I have updated the text to hopefully reflect the current state of play at:

However, for win.meteor.com you really need @gabrielhpugliese to do the update as I'm not able to publish the app.

Personally, I think a 'BIG WARNING' isn't appropriate, but a pointer allowing people to find out more seems reasonable. Then when the official port is ready, we win.meteor.com can probably be retired.