[dot] Windows Developers Meet in Berlin

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From: Holger Schröder <>
Dept: look-mum-no-unix!
Date: Tuesday 18/Sep/2007, @12:17

Windows Developers Meet in Berlin
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   During the last weekend, the KDE on Windows [http://windows.kde.org]
developers conducted their second real life meeting in the Trolltech
[http://www.trolltech.com] offices in Berlin Adlershof, incorporating
new developers and improving infrastructure. Read on for more details.
   From left to right: Cornelius Schumacher (KDE e.V.), DanielMolkentin
(Trolltech), Patrick Spendrin, Bernhard Loos,Holger Schröder, Christian
Ehrlicher, Ralf Habacker,Torsten Rahn, Jaroslaw Staniek. (Click to
enlarge) [http://static.kdenews.org/danimo/kdewinmeeting07.jpg]
     On Friday evening, the participants were welcomed by the Berlin
Trolls and introduced to the office. After a nice meal at a local
restaurant, the the group evaluated the main working areas of the
participants and created a meeting roadmap.

     Saturday started with discussions about Ralf Habacker's installer,
the autobuild system by Patrick Spendrin and Holger Schröder's emerge
scripts.  The KDE installer will be used by users to install KDE
components and application on their computers. Christian Ehrlicher was
busy switching the build process to the Python-based emerge scripts
(unrelated technically to Gentoo emerge, but performing a similar
function) which are used to create binary packages from the sources in a
convenient and reproducable way. The autobuild system will be used to
check the status of different packages for fitness on the Windows
platform on a daily bases.
     The hackers goal is to integrate all tools into a complete solution
to build and distribute KDE on Windows, thus obsoleting the fairly
complex build description
[http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows] on KDE
TechBase.

     Meanwhile, Jaroslaw Staniek was able to get KWord running
[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2997] natively on Windows.

     On Sunday, KDE e.V. treasurer Cornelius Schumacher dropped by for a
short chat, while the group continued hacking and improved their skills
on the Trolltech kicker table.

     The meeting lead to an important milestone for KDE on Windows as
the team will soon be able to provide a stable build and installation
infrastructure in order to make it as easy as possible for new
developers to get started with KDE on Windows. With the new installer,
getting started with a native KDE will only be a matter of a few clicks.

     Thanks go to Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com] for providing the
team with a meeting location and broadband internet as well as to KDE
e.V. [http://ev.kde.org] for sponsoring travelling costs and
accommodation for a very productive meeting.