Scenic dependencies on Windows? - windows

Background
I have been playing around with Scenic to make a desktop app across multiple environments. While the Install dependencies for Ubuntu are outdated and don;t work for the latest LTS (v20) I was still able to figure out the packages and install it on Ubuntu Linux.
However ... there is nothing for Windows.
Questions
Does Scenic even work on Windows?
If so, what are the dependencies? What need I to install?

Answer
Unfortunately, Scenic does not run on Windows, nor can it support it.
At the time of writing of this post, I am also unaware of any plans to make it work on a Windows system.
The confirmation came from an official collaborator from the Scenic project:
https://github.com/boydm/scenic/issues/206

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