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As I wasn't approved to the ml it took me some time to realise there was an answer...
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On onsdag 28 februari 2018 kl. 22:56:00 EET Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann wrote:
><i> Hi,
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</i>><i> cool ;=)
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</i>><i> > Hello everyone
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > KDE Binary Factory is generating stable Kate builds for quite a while
</i>><i> > now and I think it would be a good idea to use
</i>><i> > them as the official Kate installer for Windows.
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > The release process would be as follows:
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > Download the builds build from
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > <a href="https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kate-stable-win64/">https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kate-stable-win64/</a>
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > <a href="https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kate-stable-win32/">https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kate-stable-win32/</a>
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > Do some testing and then upload it to
</i>><i> > <a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/kate/">https://download.kde.org/stable/kate/</a> .
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > Kevin wrote some nice blog posts about Binary Factory <a href="http://kfunk.org/">http://kfunk.org/</a> .
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I just tested the newest installer :)
I think it is super to be able to just copy an automatically built installer!
There are a couple of issues with this installer tho that could be improved:
1) The installer did not detect the already installed version and even lets
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That's not 100% true, it just doesn't recognize your old installer
which used a different registry key.<br>
So once updated it automatically uninstalls previous installs on
update.<br>
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2) The installer size is just ~6MB bigger than the current installer, but the
installed size has jumped from 160MB to over 400MB. There are a lot of
unneeded files installed like share/common-lisp :) but that is also just a
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Sure the installer size could be reduced by a bit.<br>
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Noting tho that 150MB of the new installer is dictionaries that the old
installer downloaded on demand. I do think that that extra 150MB might be
worth it as we then do not need to have special dictionary downloads in the
installer and Internet connection during install.</pre>
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The old installer downloaded a handful of languages while the new
provides all dictionaries from libreoffice.<br>
Installer size is important for people in areas with a bad internet
connectivity, installed size isn't that important nowadays.<br>
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I know tho that it is not so easy to remove installed files, because it might
not always be so easy to know what feature you might break as the application
does start, but some feature might be broken and you do not know which one...
If we would _add_ diff and kompare to the installation we probably would get
the file modification dialog to work, which it does not at the moment (also the
current/old installer lacks these)... There is a lot of small things that
could be done :)
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</i>><i> As I am not the Windows guy here, perhaps Kåre wants to give his input,
</i>><i> if he is ok with it, we should link that stuff on the website, too.
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</i>><i> Thanks for all the works besides!
</i>><i>
</i>><i> (both to Hannah + Kevin)
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Yeah, thanks for doing the automated installer build!
Greetings,
Kåre
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</i>><i> Greetings
</i>><i> Christoph
</i>><i>
</i>><i> > Cheers,
</i>><i> >
</i>><i> > Hannah
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Cheers,<br>
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Hannah<br>
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