Thanks Brendan for providing windows-builds in the past! Can you tell us how many downloads the last releases had (on average)?
Thanks, Greg Am Fr., 18. Jan. 2019 um 18:55 Uhr schrieb Brendan Kidwell <sn...@glump.net >: > Hi all, > > Thanks to Jaap and any other contributors for all the hard work porting > Zim to Python 3 and GTK 3! I look forward to using it. > > Last month, Jaap released Zim 0.69 (Python 2 / GTK 2) and I successfully > ran the build process for Windows, but didn't get around to publishing it. > I've been using my 0.69 build and aside from the existing things we don't > know how to fix from before, it's working. I will sign the Windows full > install and portable install packages and upload them to the Zim for > Windows site probably tonight. (Sorry I got distracted in the mean time. > I've been sick.) > > Also last month I started to try to build the Python 3 and GTK 3 branch of > Zim. I had some trouble with dependency hell, even though I was using pip > and pyinstaller. I do not know how close I am to a solution. I will not be > focusing on this effort, personally; I have other personal projects on the > table, and I don't know how many hours I can put into this in the next > month or two. > > If anyone wants to try to build Zim 0.70 RC1 using Python 3 and GTK 3 on > WINDOWS, with the intention of packaging and sharing it, my recommendation > would be to stick with pip and pyinstaller, and try to do things as simple > as possible. Py2exe (used by the build script for the Python 2 version of > Zim) has not seen a release since 2008, while pyinstaller claims to know > how to deal with GTK 3, out of the box. For the build and packaging steps > that aren't covered by pyinstaller, you can probably lift ideas from my Zim > for Python 2 build process in "./windows" in the Git repository. > > If you come up with a good clean solution that's easily repeatable > (download 1 or 2 dependencies, run a shell script or two), that's great! > Show it to the team and let's delete the old build process and replace it > with yours in the Git repository. GPG-sign your installer executables and > I'd be happy to put them on my site. (Or you can take over Windows > installer hosting.) > > If no one else comes up with a nice solution for packaging Zim 0.70 for > Windows, I'll probably get something working by March or April. > > Brendan Kidwell > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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