[digiKam-users] Thank you for creating, maintaining and enhancing digiKam

[Gilles Caulier]

No. weekly build still exists in all cases.

The store publications are only for stable releases only.

For the M$ store, we MUST compile digiKam under MSVC. We cannot
publish binary cross compiled as it done today under Linux. Also the
tool to build UWP package for Windows platforms exist only under
Windows with MSVC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform

I see one advantage to build under MSVC : code consolidation
everywhere. this compiler report errors and warnings that G++ or Clang
never report.

Else compiling under windows is complex and slowwww...

Gilles

Le dim. 16 févr. 2020 à 03:48, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hey,
>
> While I see that you are looking at getting this in the Microsoft/Apple store, will this mean that at some people we won't be able to download and install like we do today?
>
> I am sure that there are people out there (like me) who dislike the Microsoft store.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:42 PM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to all for your feedbacks...
>>
>> Just few words to details a plan for the future deployment.
>>
>> * Under Windows, we enable, hack, and try tp finalize the Microsoft
>> Visual C++ support. All the code already compile in the continuous
>> integration :
>>
>> https://build.kde.org/view/OS%20-%20Windows/job/Extragear/job/digikam/job/kf5-qt5%20WindowsMSVCQt5.14/
>>
>> This stage is mandatory to be able to publish digiKam in the Windows
>> Store as an official package !
>>
>> The second stage is have the binary factory working fine to compile
>> the package. For the moment it do not work, but we working on.
>>
>> https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Digikam_Nightly_win64/
>>
>> KDE has a generic windows Store account that we will use later to post
>> official stable release. I hope to see the final 7.0.0 published on
>> store.
>>
>> * Recently, Apple open the MacOS store to a free of charge for
>> organizations. So we can plan a similar publication of digiKam in this
>> store later.
>>
>> https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02032020a
>>
>> My Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le sam. 15 févr. 2020 à 14:40, Pedro Neves <nevesdiver at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >
>> > On 15/02/20 19:05, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>> > > Thanks a lot for all the great work, you put in the digiKam-Projekt.
>> > >
>> > > Just checked some of my old photos: The oldest ones carry "digiKam-1.1.0" in
>> > > their metadata. Those photos are from 2009.
>> > >
>> > > So digiKam is my tool of choice to handle photos on my linux machine for over 10
>> > > years!
>> > >
>> >
>> > Ditto!
>> >
>> > I've checked mine, and some have digiKam 0.9.1 (March, 2007) or 0.9.2
>> > (June, 2007)... That's a lot of years using nothing but Digikam to
>> > manage my images.
>> >
>> > Thank you all!
>> >
>> > Pedro
>> >