Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 11.12.2015 um 02:43 schrieb Peter Kümmel: > >> Uwe, could you check if the downloadable zip is good enough as basis for >> a real installer? > > Thanks peter, > > I will be offline soon and don't find time. I'll be back in 3 weeks but > cannot promise I will find time soon afterwards. > >> If this works, then we could even try to build the installer >> automatically. Uwe, do you know that scripting in linux is much more >> convinient than these bat file hacking. > > As I wrote in the "should we release ..." thread this week, it is > important for me to support Windows. If I switch to Linux who will then > take care for Windows? Windows shares more than 90% of the market.
Please stop talking about this market share stuff. We do not have any numbers how the percentage is for LyX users, and nobody wants to stop windows support, so it simply does not matter. > Personally I hate consoles and scripts. I cannot remember commands and > thus are very bad at this. > With MSVC I can just open the *.sln file and then use a GUI to compile, > find bugs, modify the sources, insert commands whose names I cannot > remember (by looking what the menus offer me)... This is fine for your personal workflow, and nobody wants to force you to change it. However, in the long term we need an automated nightly build for all platforms. This is much easier to realize with mingw, and for this purpose scripting is important. If we have such a nightly build, then it could take over much of the manual work you do currently. Also, you could go abroad for three weeks, and it would just not matter for releasing stuff (assuming that the windows build was in good shape before). >> Are there any god reasons to not use mingw for a release? (sure for >> developing msvc could be still used) > > I don't know mingw. I nevertheless think it is preferable to use MSVC > because this is the standard on Windows and, more important, then I can > be sure the compiled program works on every Win platform. This topic > costs me suo much time in the past because there are so many different > Windows versions around (32 and 64 bit of XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 2008 > server ...) The big advantage of using mingw would be that also other people than you could do this work. The only difference between mingw and MSVC is that a different compiler is used, and mingw is not an IDE. For end users it should not matter at all whether the binary was compiled with mingw or MSVC. IMO, we should try it out and collect experiences, and then we can tell whether there are any drawbacks. With the knowledge we do currently have I would not expect any. Georg
