IRC meeting

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 27 September 2010, Adam C. wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:59:26 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >
> >> On Monday 27 September 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> >>
> >> > Actually, I would support Windows XP and 7, and just drop vista. The  
> >> reason is
> >> > that XP still have a huge market share. And it still have a few years  
> >> in front
> >> > of it. I would ignore Vista, however. But if XP is used as a base, it  
> >> should
> >> > not be too difficult to have it working on 7.
> >>
> >> When I was still developing Qt apps for Windows, there didn't seem much  
> >> difference between Window 7 and Vista: both were tricky in ways that XP  
> >> wasn't :-). We can probably see how Nitrostemp's windows installer  
> >> works and do the same thing for Krita. It'll be a big download, but  
> >> then, that's a mark of quality :-)
> >>
> >
> > I just tested the Amarok Windows installer and it's a perfect  
> > demonstration of how this is difficult to get right: there's a lot of  
> > flicker and subinstallers running and then finally, after install 500mb  
> > of stuff, Amarok crashes on startup.
> 
> 500 MEGABYTES?
> that's way to much imo. we have to try cutting this down..

Amarok's windows installer takes 537M, according to df :-) It contains a complete kde4 installation, of course, including Qt stuff like linguist.exe, all translations and much more stuff.

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