KDevelop for Windows

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 09:48:52 CET Daniel Kats wrote:
> > Cool, that's great to hear. I'm not a Windows user, but from [1] I heard
> > that
> > apparently KDevelop can now be consumed via chocolatey? Have you tried
> > that?
> > 
> > [1]: https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2020-02-apps-update/

Heya,

> Yes, I did. But it's the same old version 5.4.2 (Last Update: 28 Sep 2019).
> Anyway, searching for a way to create an installer, I found the
> https://binary-factory.kde.org page with an installer for 5.5.0. Now,
> knowing that a Windows version is still compiled regularly, I'm much more
> relaxed for the future of KDevelop on Windows. I'm still a bit worried that
> the nightly version is not compiling since over a month, but hopefully it's
> just some configuration issue.

The builds actually fail right now, that's why there are no new artifacts.

See for instance:
  https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Management/job/
KDevelop_Nightly_win64/561/console

I'll ping some people who can look at this :)

> Would it be possible to link
> https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/KDevelop_Release_win64/ on the
> https://www.kdevelop.org/download page such that also Windows users could
> use the latest KDevelop version?

The Release builder is building the latest release of KDevelop, thus it's 
basically equivalent to what we're uploading to download.kde.org.

It's just that no one uploaded the artifacts for 5.5.0 to download.kde.org 
yet.

> If you still need someone actively looking
> and testing the Windows versions, I could do it, but it's much less
> pressing now :-)

Yep, that's definitely needed. It'd be nice to have someone telling the 
release team that the Windows version is working fine when e.g. releasing a 
new version.

That's best done in our IRC channel (see the contribution page on kdevelop.org 
for details).

Regards,
Kevin

 
> > That would be very much welcome. I think the first step required here
> > would be
> > to get in touch with the kde-on-windows working group [2] and ask them how
> > to
> > proceed. Afaik a group of people are working on bringing installers into
> > the
> > Windows store. It would be great if you could try to do the same with
> > KDevelop?
> > 
> > [2]: https://community.kde.org/Windows
> 
> Honestly, I don't think bringing KDevelop to the Windows store is very
> important (at least at the moment). For example, in our department the
> Windows store is blocked on all Windows computers, therefore distributing
> KDevelop over it would actually make the life more difficult. Chocolatey is
> a good compromise (and probably it's much simpler to put the installers
> there), but it definitely needs more frequent updates. I hope, if you link
> the installer of 5.5.0 on the homepage, it will also go to the Chocolatey
> fairly quickly.

Yes, the KDE on Windows team usually takes care of updating the Chocolatey 
packages. But that's usually only done when they're having the time to do so.
 
> > If there's anything to be done within KDevelop, don't hesitate to ask on
> > our
> > development mailing list. I for one would really appreciate if someone
> > could
> > work on our Windows support.
> 
> OK, thanks. I will try my best in keeping an eye on the Windows version,
> and raise an alarm, if something goes wrong asap.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel


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