KDE4 windows binary distribution

[Ralf Habacker]

aishen schrieb:
> good job :)
> I still can't use kde-win but i guess I will soon :)
> it asks for dll
>   
This looks like a dependency problem, which should be fixed.
You should select for example kdegames in the installer and all required 
package should be selected automatically. If there are still libraries 
missing please report to this list.

Ralf

> Ralf Habacker a écrit :
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I have gotten access to the staging server of the kde4 mirror 
>> system which means we can release windows package onto the kde4 mirrors 
>> in the near future. Additional we have access to the sourceforge high 
>> bandwith mirror system for the same purpose.
>>
>> There is a really need to add additional mirrors because the servers we 
>> are currently using are partial overloaded.
>>
>> To give you some impressions:
>>
>> In Dezember 2007 there were files downloaded with a complete size of 
>> about 1 TB, for example kdebase-mingw-3.95-1-bin.zip was downloaded 
>> about 4000 times.
>> The Top 30 of 101 Total Countries from this month are listed below
>>
>> Top 30 of 101 Total Countries
>> #  Hits            Files           Volume              Country
>> 1  38283  17.18%  33162  19.63%   54.33 GB   6.52%  United States
>> 2  30476  13.68%  29305  17.34%  431.41 GB  51.76%  Russian Federation
>> 3  28493  12.79%  24224  14.34%   38.88 GB   4.66%  Germany
>> 4  12620   5.66%  12234   7.24%  110.95 GB   13.31%  China
>> 5  10483   4.70%   9133   5.41%   16.50 GB   1.98%  Great Britain (UK)
>> 6   9945   4.46%   8960   5.30%   21.35 GB   2.56%  France
>> 7   7842   3.52%   7061   4.18%   15.46 GB   1.85%  Poland
>> 8   6988   3.14%   6066   3.59%   12.99 GB   1.56%  Italy
>> 9   5570   2.50%   5104   3.02%   10.02 GB   1.20%  Netherlands
>> 10  5290   2.37%   4891   2.89%    9.06 GB   1.09%  Canada
>> 11  4542   2.04%   4083   2.42%    6.60 GB   0.79%  Brazil
>> 12  3683   1.65%   3276   1.94%    5.19 GB   0.62%  Spain
>> 13  3625   1.63%   3412   2.02%    7.28 GB   0.87%  Czech Republic
>> 14  3547   1.59%   3162   1.87%    6.64 GB   0.80%  Ukraine
>> 15  3292   1.48%   3043   1.80%    4.44 GB   0.53%  Japan
>> 16  3134   1.41%   2610   1.54%    2.26 GB   0.27%  Australia
>> 17  2696   1.21%   2348   1.39%    5.04 GB   0.60%  Hungary
>> 18  2505   1.12%   2294   1.36%    7.18 GB   0.86%  Romania
>> 19  2473   1.11%   2130   1.26%    4.04 GB   0.49%  Austria
>> 20  2417   1.08%   2239   1.33%    2.44 GB   0.29%  Norway
>> 21  2390   1.07%   2167   1.28%    4.78 GB   0.57%  Portugal
>> 22  2276   1.02%   2121   1.26%    5.89 GB   0.71%  Sweden
>> 23  2035   0.91%   1734   1.03%    4.97 GB   0.60%  Switzerland
>> 24  2005   0.90%   1631   0.97%    3.09 GB   0.37%  Bulgaria
>> 25  1863   0.84%   1634   0.97%    4.63 GB   0.55%  India
>> 26  1681   0.75%   1512   0.89%    2.81 GB   0.34%  Belgium
>> 27  1616   0.73%   1406   0.83%    3.37 GB   0.40%  Latvia
>> 28  1386   0.62%   1242   0.74%    2.44 GB   0.29%  Slovak Republic
>> 29  1227   0.55%   1146   0.68%    1.67 GB   0.20%  Korea (South)
>> 30  1159   0.52%    998   0.59%    1.95 GB   0.23%  Israel
>>
>> In the half januar 2008 the installer is downloaded about *10.000 *times 
>> and about *268029 *files has been downloaded.
>>
>> To be able to use the kde mirror system there are currently some open 
>> thinks:
>>
>> 1. Mostly kde mirrors use the ftp protocol which isn't supported by the 
>> installer yet - this has to be extended
>>
>> 2. sourceforge mirrors do not support sub directories, which requires to 
>> extend the installer a bit -> I'm working on this, it will be ready in 
>> the 0.8.5 release of the installer
>>
>> 2. kde mirror directory layout:
>> The currently used mirrors contains several directories with kde 
>> unstable releases and directories for supplementary libraries and tools.
>> There are only the latest version of the supplementary libraries 
>> available which may work for win32libs but probably will give problems 
>> for packages in the kdesupport category because of possible api changes. 
>>
>> Given the fact that installer version 0.8.5 will support flat directory 
>> structures I'm planing to put all required files (including the 
>> installer config file) for a given release on the kde mirrors into one 
>> subdirectory eg:
>>
>> /pub/kde/unstable/3.97/windows
>>    -all files for 3.97 release
>> /pub/kde/unstable/4.1/windows
>>    - all files for 4.1 release
>>
>> You can see an example of such structure in 
>> http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/mirror-example/
>>
>> Any comments ?
>>
>> Ralf
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