2010/11/5 Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>: > Hi, > > On Thursday 04 November 2010, Patrick Spendrin wrote: >> KDE on Windows building/packaging works this way: > > ok, let's focus on creating a 4.5.x release. So far, it seems to me the > greatest obstacles are: > > 1) Only few people really know what precisely needs to be done to create a > release. Your sketch certainly helps understanding some of the major steps. > But still, I for one simply wouldn't know where to start. So I'm hoping for > very specifc instructions. Naturally, there will be problems of all sorts on > the way, and you can hardly anticipate and document all of that. But in an > ideal world, what would be the sequence of commands needed to create a > release? > > 2) Creating a release is a daunting task, and it's hard to split up into more > managable portions. Let's break this one up some more, into mostly independent > problems: > > 2a) Packaging dependencies: Alright, I can see the pain involved. But are > missing dependencies really still an issue for a 4.5.x release? If so, do you > have a list (complete or not) of which ones in particular? I guess it should > be possible to split up at least this point among several people, easily.
>From digiKam viewpoint, the next 2.0.0 release will require OpenCV library for face detection stuff. On my Win7, it compile fine with TDM-GCC and MSVC2008. It's a libary managed by Cmake. So it's easy to include as windows installer package > > 2b) I keep stumbling across the "multitude of compilers" issue. If ressources > are this limited, then trying to package for several compilers at once looks > totally counter-productive to me at this point of time. I've stated before > that I'm all for dropping everything except MinGW4-32bit from the installer, > but I guess this idea won't be accepted (I'd still appreciate any direct > feedback, though). >From a developer viewpoint, to have at least Mingw4-32 + MSVC is very instructive. Some warnings/errors can be see with GCC, some others with M$ compiler. both are complementary. I never run digiKam & co using MSVC bin, for a simple reason : it crash at start up due a binary uncompatibility between KDE4 packages compiled with MSVC 2006 and digiKam compiled with MSVC2008 I always use GCC. All compile and run fine. >From an user viewpoint it's a very confuse situation. Why 2 compiler packages version exist... Only one is enough. Gilles Caulier _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
