[Digikam-users] Re: re Windows version

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/5/22 Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>:
> Giles, thanks for taking the time to respond to my post.  It's pretty
> much as I thought, and I do understand, although I've not a clue about
> libraries and compiling and such matters.  Here is what I don't understand:
>
> 1.  Why the KDE underpinnings.  It's not just us Win-doze users
> experiencing problems, it seems that LInux users do, too.  Perhaps I'm
> misremembering.  There are plenty of multi-platform programs out there
> that aren't locked into what I think of as that KDE nightmare.  I'm
> going to guess that KDE is where you started and now you are locked in.

Well, digiKam depand indeep of a lots of KDE Libraries and KDE runtime
program (to run KIOSlave for ex.)

Also, KDE and digiKam depand of Qt4 + other exta libs, as libpng,
libjpeg, libtiff, libxml, libxslt, libjasper, etc...

You can image the puzzle...

Currently, to build windows version, KDE windows packages are require.
To improve it, all KDE/Qt/shared libs must be build as well by hand,
as it done under MACOSX with macport project. This will optimize a
lots the size of whole windows package


>
> 2.  As Windows has some 15-20 times the users at the desktop level, I
> would think that you would want a good Windows version.  Of course, I've
> seen enough Linux pride to understand that might not be the case.  Or,
> just not enough time to support all those potential Windows users.
> That, I certainly do understand.

This is the problem. A team is dedicated to do it, but...

Gilles Caulier