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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Beta hopefully soon, only waiting on Windows installer(s)
From:       Peter_Kümmel <syntheticpp () gmx ! net>
Date:       2016-01-18 14:00:08
Message-ID: 514D4EFC-5C57-46ED-8C47-C6E81F938B65 () gmx ! net
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Am 18. Januar 2016 09:33:17 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe Stöhr" <uwestoehr@web.de>:
> 
> 
> Original Message   
> From: Peter Kümmel
> Sent: Montag, 18. Januar 2016 03:49
> To: Uwe Stöhr; Scott Kostyshak; LyX Developers
> Subject: Re: Beta hopefully soon, only waiting on Windows installer(s)
> 
> Am 18. Januar 2016 01:24:38 MEZ, schrieb "Uwe Stöhr"
> <uwestoehr@web.de>:
> > Am 17.01.2016 um 03:22 schrieb Peter Kümmel:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > > 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.
> > 
> > But what is going on here? I reported that i am ready for beta1. I
> even
> > 
> > presented you an installer.
> > And to repeat myself, building the installer was never a problem, 
> > building LyX with Qt 5 was the problem.
> > 
> 
> But there must be no problem in building with Qt5. And if you report
> problems about cmake could not find Qt5 something is fishy on your
> system.
> 
> Damn no, I did not report this. I can compile Lyx with Qt 5.5.1 with
> MSVC 2010, but not with MSVC 2012 Or newer.
> 
> CMake could and can find Qt, I only need to specify some Qt paths. I
> think that specifying only one should be sufficient too.‎
> 
> That your script doesn't work is another issue. As I wrote I could
> compile with the script before you changed it.
> 
> > And nobody had an idea what you are doing when creating the
> installer.
> 
> I wrote you an email with the instructions. Have you read it? Have you
> tried it out? I'm upset to hear such statements if people did not even
> tried it. I asked you for feedback and got no reply.

You mean the installer instructions? Yes I tried yesterday and it worked. I also saw \
your nsh changes in git. I further plan to investigate how a mingw build could be \
integrated. 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.



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


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