Re: The future of KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Aleix Pol
Hi, To be honest, I didn't expect people to use the occasion for ranting. We all know it's been hard to do multiplatform development on kdelibs 4, that's for granted. That's why some of us went through kdelibs and made it become the KDE Frameworks 5. It's been a massive project, and we've done it f

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Chris
Thanks Cristian My comments should be seen as positive criticisms. As you are well aware I have had many problems getting a working environment in windows. The emerge system is a wonderful collection of software. When it works it is fantastic, unfortunately it is very fragile. Being a 'newb' c

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Gilles Caulier
Hi, Your are not alone. For digiKam under windows, it's the same problem to release a version running on this system... So i'm hear this thread with interrest, to see which solutions are planed for the future... Best Gilles Caulier 2014-04-02 12:08 GMT+02:00 Chris : > Wow > > Its great to see

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Chris
Wow Its great to see I am not alone. You have obviously gone to a great deal of effort to get this all working. So I really appreciate the chance to clone your kde 'lite' environment. The KDE learning curve is quite substantial. For example It took a while to figure out there was some sort o

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Cristian OneČ›
Hi, Just my 2 cents on this. Rants won't help improving anything. The most important cause that's holding back KDE on Windows development, I think, is the number of people working on it and their spare time. So, this being open source, if you have a itch please scratch it. I admit that KDE on Wind

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
Well, you post it as a rant, but I have to agree... The big problem is that KDE4 is both a platform and a development framework, and the two are mixed together. For Krita, I've stopped using the emerge system to get the dependencies, because it's just too fragile. It's wonderful if you want to

Re: KDE Development on Windows

2014-04-02 Thread Chris
As a developer who is trying to compile and then improve kmymoney on windows I must say it is the most painful process. If you want portability for KDE apps you need to uncouple applications from a lot of the hardcore KDE stuff. Just creating a suitable environment for building kmymoney has