Hi Dennis, Dennis Roczek wrote: > If this "tutorial" is for newbees, then tell them that Windows 7+ is > supported, otherwise some might come with an old Windows XP or even > stranger system. > Very well, added that. ;)
> In the end this situation is because of a missing motivation to keep > the requirements on track. Doesn't matter where: buildbots, > tinderboxes, google fuzz, cloph (release), wiki, scripts, > etc... Mostly a simply message to the ml is missing. (This is just > an observation by mainly non-dev / non-builder; just a reader of > wiki, irc, mailing lists, etc; exception this week about font-python > stuff) > Hmm, not sure exactly what you're referring to - the Perl font module prerequisite change was perhaps not done perfectly, but ended up in LODE within half a day or so. The hope is that on average (there's always the chance of 'bad luck', like master broken, lode not up-to-date, MS ships a new service pack that configure doesn't quite get right just yet etc), lode and the referenced wiki page is the place to go to easily replicate a working LibreOffice setup for Windows. I know this is not perfect (I've personally spent a week wall-clock on getting a build going on a well-worn VS 2015 install, with a metric ton of other dev work + respective tools installed on the machine, which was interferring in most interesting ways), but we can only improve from there iteratively. One idea I had in mind was to use the msbuild configs from VS, instead of manually trawling the registry & eternally fixing up after MS updates. Another one is this chocolatey thingit, perhaps combined with Vagrant, so even if we cannot legally distribute a Windows VM, we can perhaps have configuration scripts around to stand one up from scratch easily. If anyone's interested in that, I can provide pointers & snippets. > Docker would maybe possible with the latest (TM) Windows 10 stuff. > How so? If you want to build under Linux, your best bet is still to use one natively. > This is more a general problem not willing to write at least a few > minutes to a ML hoping this can be found on google; maybe pinging at > least buildbots-owners to know that they have to install stuff , > well or simply to help newcomers because they will might help you in > a half year (or not!). > Yeah, there's some truth to that. There's been some encouragement in the past 6 months or so to have people doing larger changes to announce that to the list here. But it bears repeating. ;) > For this a general overview is often missing. (This is not a rant > saying the TDF should do that, this is simply a rant!) > Concretely, what for? For the code itself, that's a truly hard problem (with people like Chris trying to tackle it via book writing). Cheers, -- Thorsten
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