Officially supported platform (Was: Re: [calligra] /: Move the external library kdchart from the chart shape to 3rdparty/.)

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:

> Currently Linux is our only officially supported platform, this is why build
> issues (and other critical issues) on Linux become release blockers. Windows
> and Mac OSX support is still considered work in progress and experimental.
> Hopefully it will change some time in the future.

Well, given that we've got a build bot on windows and build packages for 
all the releases, I'd say we should upgrade the status of Windows as a 
supported platform.

> But we also have to take into considerations some pratical aspects, like 95%
> of developers and "master" testers are using linux at the moment, which means
> errors are caught very quickly on Linux, and this is not the case for
> Windows/Mac OSX, it also means that a huge refactor is usually not necesserary
> to solve build issues on Linux. And before we consider Windows/Mac OSX, the
> build on those platform need to stabilize and we would need to find practical
> solutions to the lack of testing problem, like nightly/continuous build on
> build.kde.org.
>

http://build.kde.org/job/calligra_master_win32/


Boudewijn