On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 13:08:46 Dominik Haumann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Christoph Cullmann <cullm...@absint.com> wrote: > > I think that is more or less what we had in the past with the "kdewin" > > installer, that is like the cygwin installer pulling in all stuff you > > need and a set of applications in some common prefix. > > > > I am not sure that was such a success, compared to what e.g. Krita, > > Marble, Digikam and others do: individual self-contained installers (or > > bundles). > > > > I really think we should focus on making frameworks fit for that and not > > rebuilding some "micro-distro" with online installer for that operating > > systems. > I fully support that, based on the following reasoning: > > What's important to realize is that deployment under Windows works different > to deployment under Linux: In Linux, you have the package manager which > automatically drags in all correct dependencies and you are fine. > > In Windows, such a package manager does not exist. KDE tried to create > such a package manager through the emerge/KDE Windows installer, but > this is non-standard [on Windows] and simply not what users want. > > Speaking for Kate or KWrite, we want one downloadable .zip/installer that > just installs Kate/KWrite, and that's it. Yes, that implies that Kile, > KDevelop, ... will again install Qt and all the required frameworks, but > this is how things > work on Windows, and that's perfectly fine (size is not an issue).
Maybe Qt could be shared ? > So thanks a lot Christoph for your work on making self-contained frameworks, > that's definitely the correct solution. > > Incidentally, this solution is probably also desirable for commercial usage > of our KF5 frameworks: Commercial applications often want to ship > everything themselves, and having self-contained libraries that do not > depend on additional files in some other installation folder does exactly > this. I can confirm that. Alex
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