turning on digiKam + kipi-plugins in windows packages compilation...

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/10/27 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/26 Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de>:
>>  Am 26.10.2010 15:34, schrieb Cristian Oneţ:
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Gilles Caulier
>>> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> With digiKam/kipi-plugins 1.5.0, i review indeep all source code and
>>>> fixed some issues with MinGW and MSVC. All source code compile fine
>>>> now.
>>>>
>>>> Why not to include digiKam and kipi-plugins in KDE4 windows collection
>>>> ? The last version available is 1.1.0 ! A lots of users send me email
>>>> to ask why digiKam 1.5.0 is not yet available.
>>>>
>>>> We need to give a right response there. Some users speak about KDE-Win
>>>> as a dead project, not maintained really... I don't like to read these
>>>> words...
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to insist on this subject, but i think it's important. Windows
>>>> is more than 90% of computers on this planet. We cannot ignore that...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It's true that KDE on Windows didn't had a stable release since
>>> February 2010. KMyMoney would also benefit from such a release since
>>> at the time of the last release it wasn't yet stable on KDE4 but now
>>> we have a stable release several months old but KDE on Windows wasn't
>> Making a release requires people having the resource and time to make
>> this release.
>>
>> Initial kde releases has been released by me. After that Christian takes
>> over release management. After Christian Patrick took over release
>> creating. Now Patrick has finished his studies and works on a full time
>> job, probably with not enough free time to make a release anymore.
>
> Thanks Ralf for these very important information.
>
>>
>> Who is willing to make a new unstable/stable release and like to take
>> the chance to be a part of one of most exciting project in the open
>> source world ?
>
> Me, but i cannot. digiKam is a big project, and i cannot manage more as well.
>
> Of course i can help as i can, to fix compilation and source code
> under windows. But my job is not to package.
>
> Also, as i buy a new Macbook computer, i manage also macosx
> compilation using macport project (I don't not package)
>
>>
>> BTW: Nightly builds needs also a maintainer - by default it is an
>> automated process, but the last release is from September 30, 2010, so
>> there must be something broken.
>
> I recommend you to speak about this status in a blog, and to ask for
> volunteers.
>
> Gilles
>

Ralf,

Do you plan a coding sprint with all windows developers/contributors ?

If yes, and depending of my availability, i can be present. This
depend of a lots factor of course, because i work as computer science
engineer in a big research center in France, and i'm also teacher in a
engineer school (evening classes).

This year, i also change home, around Christmas...

I'm that other 3rd party developers as Christian with KMyMoney can
contribute to a coding sprint.

What do you think about ?

Gilles Caulier