extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> Personally I think the Windows team needs to just work harder. :D I
>
> *headdesk*
> Like they don't have anything else to do.
> Just like we need to work harder and fix bugs in Amarok 1.4...
>
>> remember talking to someone (maybe you?) saying that the cmake files
>> didn't have any build support for mysql embedded, which is completely
>> false as I was actually learning about how libmysqld is built by
>> reading the (windows-only) cmake files. My guess is they need to use
>> mysql 5.1 instead of mysql 5.0.
>
> And I assume you are going to tell them about this in a second?

Who exactly? Anyone in kde-windows who will listen or something?

>> The whole situation with Windows is a bit awkward since it conflates
>> the normal upstream/downstream separation.
>
> This doesn't have much to do with upstream/downstream separation. They
> would be just as pissed if you did that and they were downstream like
> any other distro.

Most distros see it as their responsibility to package stuff. There
are probably some Linux distros who don't currently package libmysqld;
I doubt they'll see it as our responsibility to support sqlite.

I think your right though, it probably isn't the upstream/downstream
separation. Windows is just weird where all vendors are supposed to
package things themselves so since apparently the mysql builds don't
have libmysqld, the Windows team is at a lose.

> And really: We want to be successful on Windows, right? Windows users
> are going to be a big user group (The biggest?). We can't pull stuff
> like this any longer and make it hard for the kde-on-windows folks!

Calm down, I really don't think its that big of a deal.