Binary-Factory and download links

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:32 AM Kåre Särs <kare.sars at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi Hannah,
>
> On Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:00:42 EEST Hannah von Reth wrote:
> > Any reason for not using the a stable build officially?
> >
> > https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kate_Release_win64/

Just a quick note in regards to scalability - the files on
binary-factory.kde.org are served directly by Jenkins, and therefore
doesn't scale well for large download volumes.
If we could grab packages for final releases from the Binary Factory
and upload those to download.kde.org that would be awesome.

(It also has the benefit of allowing people to more easily go back in
time in the future to an older version should that be needed)

>
> I don't see any meaningful reason not to use it. I had hoped to meet you here
> at Akademy to work on the binary-factory installer. I have now at least made a
> list of files that I think could be removed from installation. I'm not 100%
> sure about all the files in the list tho. Do we have a use-case for for example
> qtexttospeech_sapi.dll?
>
> There are also things compiled that could be removed. For example KActivity
> and KGlobalAccel don't do anything on Windows.
>
> You can pass -DFORCE_DISABLE_KGLOBALACCEL=1 to kxmlgui to not need it (but
> that you probably already knew already ;)
>
> Attached is the list of files that I think could be removed.
>
> Regards,
>   Kåre

Cheers,
Ben

>
> >
> > On 16/08/2018 10:43, Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > > Hi Hannah,
> > >
> > > thanks for the quick response.
> > >
> > > I will then just link the nighties as additional downloads and keep the
> > > additional links to the build Kåre picks.
> > >
> > > I hope that makes the nice binary-factory builds more discoverable.
> > >
> > > Will do the same for macOS, the last nightlies already work better than my
> > > old crap.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > > ----- Am 16. Aug 2018 um 8:25 schrieb Hannah von Reth vonreth at kde.org:
> > >> Hi Christoph,
> > >>
> > >> The idea is that binary-factory offers daily stable and unstable build,
> > >> using always the latest libraries provided by Craft.
> > >>
> > >> Pointing people to the unstable job for nighties is a ok.
> > >>
> > >> For releases the idea was that a team tests a specific installer, if
> > >> everything works ok the
> > >> team then follows the usual release process for downloads-kde.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Hannah
> > >>
> > >> On 15/08/2018 22:36, Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> if we e.g. want to link to the lastest produced binary packages
> > >>> from the binary factory for Kate (nightly and release), what is the
> > >>> right
> > >>> way to do that?
> > >>>
> > >>> Is there some download.kde.org place were the last sucessfull builds are
> > >>> kept some days for public consumption? I assume one should not link the
> > >>> latest successful
> > >>> build pages like
> > >>>
> > >>> https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/job/Kate_Release_wi
> > >>> n64/
> > >>>
> > >>> to the user, or?
> > >>>
> > >>> Greetings
> > >>> Christoph
>