From lyx-devel  Mon Jan 18 14:00:08 2016
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_K=FCmmel?= <syntheticpp () gmx ! net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:00:08 +0000
To: lyx-devel
Subject: Re: Beta hopefully soon, only waiting on Windows installer(s)
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Am 18=2E Januar 2016 09:33:17 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe St=C3=B6hr" <uwestoehr@web=
=2Ede>:
>
>
>=C2=A0 Original Message =C2=A0
>From: Peter K=C3=BCmmel
>Sent: Montag, 18=2E Januar 2016 03:49
>To: Uwe St=C3=B6hr; Scott Kostyshak; LyX Developers
>Subject: Re: Beta hopefully soon, only waiting on Windows installer(s)
>
>Am 18=2E Januar 2016 01:24:38 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe St=C3=B6hr"
><uwestoehr@web=2Ede>:
>>Am 17=2E01=2E2016 um 03:22 schrieb Peter K=C3=BCmmel:
>>
>>> I would release the beta with the available Windows installer, but
>>would also mention, that because of men power this time on Windows
>>there will be nothing better that beta quality=2E
>>> In the announcement you could mention that we are busy improving
>>this, but that at the moment no Windows developer has the time to
>>create a reliable installer and that we are very interested in someone
>>who wanna help out=2E
>>
>>But what is going on here? I reported that i am ready for beta1=2E I
>even
>>
>>presented you an installer=2E
>>And to repeat myself, building the installer was never a problem,=20
>>building LyX with Qt 5 was the problem=2E
>>
>
>But there must be no problem in building with Qt5=2E And if you report
>problems about cmake could not find Qt5 something is fishy on your
>system=2E
>
>Damn no, I did not report this=2E I can compile Lyx with Qt 5=2E5=2E1 wit=
h
>MSVC 2010, but not with MSVC 2012 Or newer=2E
>
>CMake could and can find Qt, I only need to specify some Qt paths=2E I
>think that specifying only one should be sufficient too=2E=E2=80=8E
>
>That your script doesn't work is another issue=2E As I wrote I could
>compile with the script before you changed it=2E
>
>=C2=A0> And nobody had an idea what you are doing when creating the
>installer=2E
>
>I wrote you an email with the instructions=2E Have you read it? Have you
>tried it out? I'm upset to hear such statements if people did not even
>tried it=2E I asked you for feedback and got no reply=2E

You mean the installer instructions? Yes I tried yesterday and it worked=
=2E I also saw your nsh changes in git=2E I further plan to investigate how=
 a mingw build could be integrated=2E Also I wonder what for files from the=
 zip packages are really needed and if there would be a better place than a=
 downloadable zip file for them=2E



>
>> >Sorry, but it is an effrontery to say that no dev has the time nor
>the=20
>>ability to build a reliable installer!
>
>> But it looked like you are not able to get a straightforward build,=20
>
>Please read what I wrote=2E I did not write thus! I wrote the opposite
>and requested you to test a ready installer=2E
>
>> you told you have to touch 40 pathes to get a build up=2E Hearing this,
>the only reaction is "wtf is he doing"=2E=20
>
>Just run CMake and set Qt to Qt4=2E For Qt 5 there are only 6 Qt paths=2E
>
>>> Of course the installer for beta works fine - tested for 2 days on 5
>
>>PCs=2E And no, LyX on Windows is as stable as LyX on Mac and Unix=2E
>
>> This was to early, because until now we have no beta release=2E You
>have to build the installer after the beta is out=2E
>
>Damn, the INSTALLER=2E Of course I will build LYx wheb it is released=2E
>
>Uwe