Am 18. Januar 2016 09:33:17 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe Stöhr" <uwesto...@web.de>: > > > Original Message >From: Peter Kümmel >Sent: Montag, 18. Januar 2016 03:49 >To: Uwe Stöhr; Scott Kostyshak; LyX Developers >Subject: Re: Beta hopefully soon, only waiting on Windows installer(s) > >Am 18. Januar 2016 01:24:38 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe Stöhr" ><uwesto...@web.de>: >>Am 17.01.2016 um 03:22 schrieb Peter Kümmel: >> >>> I would release the beta with the available Windows installer, but >>would also mention, that because of men power this time on Windows >>there will be nothing better that beta quality. >>> In the announcement you could mention that we are busy improving >>this, but that at the moment no Windows developer has the time to >>create a reliable installer and that we are very interested in someone >>who wanna help out. >> >>But what is going on here? I reported that i am ready for beta1. I >even >> >>presented you an installer. >>And to repeat myself, building the installer was never a problem, >>building LyX with Qt 5 was the problem. >> > >But there must be no problem in building with Qt5. And if you report >problems about cmake could not find Qt5 something is fishy on your >system. > >Damn no, I did not report this. I can compile Lyx with Qt 5.5.1 with >MSVC 2010, but not with MSVC 2012 Or newer. > >CMake could and can find Qt, I only need to specify some Qt paths. I >think that specifying only one should be sufficient too. > >That your script doesn't work is another issue. As I wrote I could >compile with the script before you changed it. > > > And nobody had an idea what you are doing when creating the >installer. > >I wrote you an email with the instructions. Have you read it? Have you >tried it out? I'm upset to hear such statements if people did not even >tried it. I asked you for feedback and got no reply.
You mean the installer instructions? Yes I tried yesterday and it worked. I also saw your nsh changes in git. I further plan to investigate how a mingw build could be integrated. Also I wonder what for files from the zip packages are really needed and if there would be a better place than a downloadable zip file for them. > >> >Sorry, but it is an effrontery to say that no dev has the time nor >the >>ability to build a reliable installer! > >> But it looked like you are not able to get a straightforward build, > >Please read what I wrote. I did not write thus! I wrote the opposite >and requested you to test a ready installer. > >> you told you have to touch 40 pathes to get a build up. Hearing this, >the only reaction is "wtf is he doing". > >Just run CMake and set Qt to Qt4. For Qt 5 there are only 6 Qt paths. > >>> Of course the installer for beta works fine - tested for 2 days on 5 > >>PCs. And no, LyX on Windows is as stable as LyX on Mac and Unix. > >> This was to early, because until now we have no beta release. You >have to build the installer after the beta is out. > >Damn, the INSTALLER. Of course I will build LYx wheb it is released. > >Uwe
