Binary factory for RKWard

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday, 26 March 2018 10:59:31 CEST Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi Kevin!

CC'ing Hannah.

I've unfortunately no idea about the state of our MinGW setup on BFKO.

But thanks for looking into Craft-support!

Regards,
Kevin

> I've been very distracted of late, and I've only read about that sweet
> binary factory of yours, today. I would very much like to use this for
> RKWard!
> 
> For Windows, I believe we are essentially set up to go. I've just taken
> care of fixing up the craft blueprint this weekend, and successfully
> produced some working installers. So your blog says, after that I should
> simply ping you to get added. Ping!
> 
> Note that one peculiarity of RKWard is that we can only build on MinGW
> due to depending on a MinGW built binary(*). I hope that does not get
> in the way.
> 
> For Mac, well, we'd like to have that, too. But I'll have to admit,
> we're actually still in the middle of figuring out how to actually do
> that (well, we have produced some functioning manual builds, but no
> reliable process, and no bundling, yet). So far we've been going the
> MacPorts route, as that's what we have experience in from KDE4 times.
> But importantly also because it seemed to avoid problems with plugins
> and icons. Are those resolved for craft-based builds, today?
> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Mac
> does not seem to be getting a whole lot of updates...
> 
> Regards
> Thomas
> 
> (*): r-base. And no, building that from source would not help any, as
> R brings a whole ecosystem of MinGW-built external add-on packages


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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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