[Kmymoney-devel] kdewin kmymoney V4.6.1 Vs 4.6.4

[Chris]

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On 1/03/2014 6:14 PM, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Saturday 01 March 2014 12:30:29 Chris wrote:
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> > Ooops I sent this from the wrong account Pls Ignore the one in moderation!
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> Too late, never mind.
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> > Hi
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> >
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> > I have finally been able to compile and run kmymoney on windows Yip Yip
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> > Hooray!!.
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> >
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> > Numerous problems, but it appeared the main one was path length it caused
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> > unusual issues. Jom also gave me heartaches when compiling qt libs. It must
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> > have got stuck in some loop as it was consuming 50% resources but doing
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> > nothing :( Switching to mingw-make resolved that and was no slower (possibly
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> > a smidge faster!).
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> Cool. Can you write up your experience so that we can share it with others 
> (e.g. on the project website)? I am pretty sure that there are others who 
> also want to build from source in an MS-Windows environment. Being it your 
> first contribution to the project so to say :)
>

No Worries. Will Do.

> > So in my quest to create a small business windows version. I am now moving
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> > on to looking at making the code changes I require. unfortunately the kdewin
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> > version of kmymoney is quite old 2011 I beleive.
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> >
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> > I would like to switch to the current 4.6.4 which is in the git repo (I
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> > prefer git) and am wondering why the KDEWin version is so far behind. Am I
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> > better sticking to this branch or can I use the 4.6.4 branch?
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> I recommend to switch to the master branch. Many bug fixes and some 
> features have already been added to it and will result in another stable 
> release (called 4.8) during summer. So why not branch off of this for your 
> development.
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> > If I try and switch what sort of issues can I expect?
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> You shouldn't expect any issues code-wise. Since master has some features 
> over the 4.6 branch, the XML layout is different, but upward compatible. 
> In case you go back from master to 4.6 you will certainly loose that bit 
> of information (tags cross my mind).
>

Ok I read through the release notes but didnt know if it perhaps relied on a 
later QT or something.

> > If I don't switch how can I push any code into the current 4.6.4 branch as
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> > it will be untested?
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> 4.6 is a stable branch and we don't add features to it.
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> > Are the two versions compatible enough that I can edit and test in a linux
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> > kde environment and then backport my changes to the older version? thus
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> > being able to push upstream.
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> I have mentioned the differences between the KMyMoney versions above. I 
> don't see the necessity to work with the 4.6 branch anymore, even though 
> it is the stable one at the moment. I would do the following:
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> a) branch off locally from master to a dev-branch
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> b) do your modifications on the dev-branch (*)
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> c) try to stay in sync with master by merging it into your dev-branch when 
> it changes
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> d) Once confident, post your changes to reviewboard.kde.org for us to review.
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> e) Go through the review with us
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> f) Drop your stuff into the master branch (we can help here/do it for you)
>
> (*) In case you implement more than one feature at a time you can consider 
> to branch off multiple dev-branches locally to keep things separate for 
> the review process. No need to push them to the repository.
>
> Does that make sense?
>

Yes it makes sense to me :)

> @Alvaro: actually a question for you too.
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> > Sorry for so many questions...
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> No problem.
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> -- 
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> Regards
>
> Thomas Baumgart
>

Thanks Thomas I appreciate the pointers and will put this email in a safe 
place for reference

DC





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