useless discussion on MinGW/MSVC & releasing apps

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 21.12.07 13:19:42, S Page wrote:
> Saro Engels wrote:
> 
> >> Do we have a list of all these issues? I suspect I can find out some
> >> things by simply building and trying a kde app, but having them written
> >> down might be a good thing.
> >>
> >> Maybe we should ask for a bugzilla component for kde-win specific issues
> 
> Just have people enter and search for Operating System "MS-Windows". 
> (10 bugs currently.)  Maybe there's an easy way to search for this, 
> http://bugs.kde.org's "Searching" section isn't helpful.

Uhm, check out the Quey-Interface.

Though the wizard sucks for creating them. It lists "Windows binaries"
which is of course totally misleading if I build from svn. Of coures I
can change the bugreports OS and Installed from accordingly later on,
but for people that don't have bugzilla rights thats not nice...

> > There is 
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Missing/features/functions/kdelibs
> > already which is not to much yet. If you find something, please add it 
> > below.
> 
> I wrote how to install with KDEwin-installer at 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation , and in 
> its Discussion/Talk page noted a lot of end-user issues.
> 
> > thinking about what you want to release.
> 
> Before you're ready for wider usage by experienced testers (like me), 
> you need:
> 1.  A greatly expanded Status page or section so people don't waste time 
> re-researching known problems.
> 2.  A crisp repeatable installation story.  Don't let more casual users 
> play around with setting KDEDIRS (or not), manually running daemons and 
> batch files (or not), fiddling with their path, copying things around. 
> Give them ONE recipe so developers have a hope of reproducing problems.

I mostly agree, though checking techbase these days seem to point you to
the emerge script which AFAIK should work and is pretty easy - from the
description.

Andreas

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