From kde-windows  Thu May 27 20:10:58 2010
From: "Thomas Friedrichsmeier" <thomas.friedrichsmeier () ruhr-uni-bochum ! de>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:10:58 +0000
To: kde-windows
Subject: Distributing (third party) KDE apps as a bundle
Message-Id: <201005272211.02376.thomas.friedrichsmeier () ruhr-uni-bochum ! de>
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Hi,

I have previously written about problems of deploying third party KDE apps =
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windows. In the RKWard project, we've recently started using a new approach=
 on=20
binary distributions, and we are quite happy with that so far. Our situatio=
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may be special to some degree in that RKWard is not (yet) in the kdewin-
installer, we can only offer MinGW-binaries, and we also depend on an=20
installation of R. This means that until recently, installing RKWard was a=
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rather cumbersome procedure.

What we do now is this: We simply install KDE (kdebase-apps; using the regu=
lar=20
installer), R, and RKWard in a common root on the development system. We ad=
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an .lnk-file to the rkward binary. Then just zip it all up into a self-
extracting archive with 7zip. This brings the installation instructions dow=
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to:

1) Install to a directory of your choice
2) Copy the RKWard.lnk to your deskop

The download size is ~130MB, all inclusive, which is not exactly small, but=
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quite acceptable. Of that ~100MB is kdebase-apps and dependencies.

Also, this is not only simple to install, but also easy to package. The mos=
t=20
difficult part is gathering the sources for KDE for GPL version 2-complianc=
e=20
(=A73), but for that we have a simple script to download the relevant sourc=
e=20
packages from winkde.org. I'm attaching that for reference, in case it is o=
f=20
interest.

I'm not sure whether anything can be learnt from this for distributing=20
"official" KDE apps. But for third parties like us this is probably the eas=
iest=20
way to deploy a KDE app on windows.

Regards
Thomas

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#!/bin/bash
cd $0
BASEDIR=`pwd`

MANIFESTDIR=${BASEDIR}/../RKWard/KDE/manifest/
REPOSITORY="http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository-4.4/"
SUBDIRS="win32libs kde kdesupport aspell"
SUFFIXES=".tar.bz2 .zip"

FILES=`find ${MANIFESTDIR} -name '*bin.ver' -printf '%f\n' | sed -e "s/bin\.ver/src/"`
FILES="${FILES} `find ${MANIFESTDIR} -name '*bin.ver' -printf '%f\n' | sed -e "s/bin\.ver/lib/"`"

cd ${BASEDIR}/KDE

for FILE in ${FILES}
do
    FOUND="0"

    for DIR in ${SUBDIRS}
    do
	for SUFFIX in ${SUFFIXES}
	do
	    wget -r ${REPOSITORY}/${DIR}/${FILE}${SUFFIX}
	    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
		FOUND="1"
		break;
	    fi
	done
	if [ ${FOUND} -eq "1" ]; then
	    break
	fi
    done

    if [ ${FOUND} -eq "0" ]; then
	NOTFOUND="${FILE} ${NOTFOUND}"
    fi
done

if [ "${NOTFOUND}" != "" ]; then
    echo "Did not find these files:"
    for FILE in ${NOTFOUND}
    do
	echo ${FILE}
    done
fi

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