From kde-windows Sat Nov 06 09:26:28 2010 From: Andreas Pakulat Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:26:28 +0000 To: kde-windows Subject: Re: Rant: So you want help? Message-Id: <20101106092628.GA17702 () barmbek> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-windows&m=128903562931056 On 06.11.10 09:26:32, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > > There is a concept that the last recent installer is always named > > kdewin-installer-latest.exe. The url of this installer is spread all > > around the world, has been linked into many websites and is downloaded > > up to 100000 times a month. When this option is removed from the > > installer and for each compiler a different url is provided, who is > > going to talk with all those website maintainers to add additionals link > > in case more than one compiler is supported. > > Simple suggestion: kdewin-installer-latest.exe will point to the MinGW 32bit > incarnation. > > So we want to support compiler diversity, but there's no reason why we > shouldn't encourage a compiler default for end users. MinGW 32bit looks like > the obvious choice to me, because > - 32bit will work for all users > - GCC is the predominant compiler in the KDE world, so creating a MinGW based > release will typically be least trouble, compared to any other compiler. I'm not sure thats a wise choice. For me as someone who was willing to bring KDevelop to windows and work on that, mingw was always too slow to be usable. It was a magnitude slower than msvc2008 (even the first 4.x releases). So for end-users the compiler doesn't matter, but for people who'd like to use pre-built packages of the development platform (which I think many app-devs would want to use as a start to port their app) the compiler may play quite a bigger role. Having to spend a complete day just for getting my app built with mingw is not going to attract me to help with the kde/windows effort. Now that being said, I'm using past tense in the above paragraph for a reason. I haven't done any kde/windows stuff for about a year so my experiences may not be up-to-date. If there's a recent mingw/gcc release for windows that has cut down the compile/link time to a reasonable level (similar to msvc2008 or 2009) then just ignore me :) Andreas -- You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite. _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows