Rant: So you want help?

Alf Gaida info at g-com.eu
Sat Nov 6 00:31:55 CET 2010


Am Samstag 06 November 2010, 00:18:28 schrieb Ralf Habacker:
>   Am 5.11.2010 18:57, schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > On Friday 05 November 2010, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> >> Well, making a restriction in the installer is the first task. The
> >> sources for the installer are in trunk/kdesupport/kdewin-installer - it
> >> is normal Qt application ;-)
> > 
> > Alright, I'll take that as a go-ahead and start looking into it.
> 
> Are you aware that adding an additional executable with mostly the same
> functionality may result into more problems than to solve ?
> 
> There is a concept that the last recent installer is always named
> kdewin-installer-latest.exe. The url of this installer is spread all
> around the world, has been linked into many websites and is downloaded
> up to 100000 times a month.  When this option is removed from the
> installer and for each compiler a different url is provided, who is
> going to talk with all those website maintainers to add additionals link
> in case more than one compiler is supported.
> Or if only one compiler is supported, who will explain users 10 times a
> day, why compiler xyz isn't available anymore. Having all this
> possibilities in one installer makes it able to change installers
> behavior from release to release without any broken links and increased
> support requests by this.
> 
> In the opposite there is the single installer approach with a minimal
> gui approach, see
> http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/setup/stable/ - but in both
> case some people are not satisfied.
> 
> Ralf
> 
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It may be hard, but _if_ this would be the final descision it can be 
communicated before the new release is done. Breaking the old installer can be 
communicated as a new start for KDE for Windows.  Some people have to fix some 
links, so what. The first hours could be hard for the bugtracker, but if the 
new behaviour is also in the bugtracker before, where is the problem. 

Its all about communication.


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