<rant>
As a developer who is trying to compile and then improve kmymoney on windows
I must say it is the most painful process.
If you want portability for KDE apps you need to uncouple applications from
a lot of the hardcore KDE stuff. Just creating a suitable environment for
building kmymoney has proved exhausting to the point of wanting to give up.
Is it really worth the agro?
I gave up two years ago and I am close to doing so again. What would help is
a way of isolating those libraries that are absolutely necessary AND make it
possible to have both a release copy of an application and a dev copy
running on the same machine. Currently the plugin architecture forbids it
without some serious acrobatics. Why the plugin system can't load a plugin
that is in the same directory as the application I do not know. Thats the
way dll's are loaded. App directory first, shared folders last. Why do I
even need ksycoca4 I'll never know. Are you really trying to emulate windows
registry? one of the worst inventions like ahh ever.
Now I have to get back to the build process it appears a library that I was
able to build last week cant be built this week. seems it cant find a header
file... sighhhh....
Oh and keep moving things to git that's is definately a major improvement.
Did you hear subversion is moving to git.... No wait 1st of April ;)
Chris
</rant>
On 2/04/2014 6:23 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
On 1 April 2014 20:31, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
In my experience, there are very few KDE programs that work in Windows. I
think the only ones I have are Dolphin, Find Files, and Kate, and I think,
Solitaire.
Maybe but I think it's not a technical barrier but missing apps need
dedicated mainainers for Windows.
Well, krita, too, but most windows users don't see the KDE part... Except
in the about box, of course. There were technical barriers though, like
stripping out dbus, kded, running kbuildsycoca4 after install. Other
barriers still exist, like translations not working (except, weirdly
enough, for the choose-language dialog box).
Boud
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