[Digikam-users] DigiKam on windows instability

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/8/25 David Kerber <dkerber at miner.mst.edu>:
> On 8/25/2010 2:28 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Peter has exactly resumed the right problem, but it's not because we
>> don't have motifation to fix Windows port, it just a question of time.
>>
>> I has a computer with Windows and digiKam compiled and installed. this
>> week, we have a meeting with team in France, we will take a look with
>> some point as file deletion (i can reproduce it).
>
> Thank you, Gilles!  I guess I hope the bug is in digiKam (where you can
> fix it), rather than in KDE (where you can't).  Have you been able to
> reproduce any of the instability issues with moving files around?
>

I used windows version to donwload and play with a Canon camera. I
work fine during 1 hour and crash one time. I used code from trunk
(1.3.0). Now we have released 1.4.0.

As we fix a lots of code between release under Linux, problem can be
fixed also under Windows. This is why i recommend to use current code
from svn trunk under Windows.

> I think digiKam on windows has excellent potential to be popular once
> the issues are ironed out (I realize they may be KDE issues rather than
> digiKam ones).  I did a LOT of searching for photo management software
> before settling on digiKam.  There are some very good ones, but they are
> expensive, and some free or low-priced ones that have serious
> limitations compared to digiKam.  DigiKam seems to be the only one with
> its functionality at a great price.
>
> Is there any way of getting a windows port without going through the
> winKDE stuff?  If I were to build from source, would that do it?

Yes, you can build yourself, as i explained in this tutorial :

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/525

Gilles