extragear/multimedia/amarok

Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Tue Sep 23 17:27:09 CEST 2008


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> 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?

SaroEngels for example.

> 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 here is where you are a little mistaken. It is not the Windows
team that is at a loss. It is us, who worst case can't offer beta 2 to
our users.
Anyway I hope there is a way around this and it is possible to build
it on Windows rather soon as we have to do it anyhow at one point.

>> 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.

/me takes deep breath
Ok calmed down.

It is the small things that matter...


Cheers
Lydia, who is going for a walk now trying to get rid of her cold

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Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
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