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February 9th, 2008 : Releases, Releases, Releases |
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A lot has happened since the last post: The support for KDE mirrors has gotten better and better (at least if the directories stay on the servers) and the installer is currently existing in the version 0.8.6. Amarok got its own package (though it might not get updated as often). From now on we will use the official snapshot sources that are provided on the official mirrors and build our packages on top of them. An extra target has been added in the emerge scripts which represents the snapshots. That means as well that our package cycle will be aligned to the snapshot release cycle. The first packages have come out already this week (version number 4.0.60) with the next ones to come in a few days (version 4.0.61). As always you can download them with the installer (please only use the latest version) Another important thing is that for emerge I am looking for "Maintainers". The idea behind this is that I or Christian cannot build all of KDE on Windows anymore, but there are a lot of people around which build "their" package anyway so I am trying to get a list of people together who work on which part of KDE. To become a Maintainer, please write a mail to our mailing list and put your name into the techbase wiki page (SE) |
January 30th, 2008 : KDE 4.0.X branch |
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We currently have a lot of stuff todo: KDE 4.1 gets more and more stable for us, errors get fixed and besides more and more packages
will work in the next weeks plus KDE 4.0.1 gets tagged today. Most of the KDE development happens in /trunk currently but some of the work gets backported to 4.0.X branch. To get a stable release for users, I(see below) decided tonight that it is time that KDE on Windows gets a stable branch too. The stable release can be build with emerge via the new packages in the kde-4.0 category. Further Releases of this branch will be put into the targets of each package. The category kde will stay at trunk. Same applies to the release of 4.1 in the middle of this year. The KDE on Windows team is not only working on the port of KDE applications and libraries but also on the Windows Installer application: The Kdewin-Installer is supposed to be the preferred way to install KDE applications on Windows. It entered beta-phase only recently so that is ready for dealing with all the screaming users that will overrun us for 4.1 ;-). Please test it thoroughfully and use the builds from over here. (SE) |
January 24th, 2008 : The correct KDE Compiler under Windows |
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As the question arises again and again: We as the KDE on windows team, do not recommend one compiler over the other. We support MinGW as well as the two Microsoft Compilers from Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. Two additional ones will be added in the next time: the Technology Preview 4.2.1 of MinGW and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. I hope that makes it clear to everybody ... (SaroEngels - SE) |
January 22nd, 2008 : KDE mirrors available and new snapshot release |
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Done! Finally we are able to use the official KDE mirrors now which will bring KDE windows packages nearer to you.
As always you can find the instructions for Installation here. Be aware that the sync'ing from the seed server might need a bit so not all servers will have the new snapshot available instantly. Looking forward, we are currently working on koffice and kdepim - with kdepim having still a longer way to come to an end. Development builds of koffice look quite well so far so that we might bring koffice packages soon. (SE) |
January 16th, 2008 : KDE mirrors available in the next few days |
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The kde-windows Project is pleased to announce that it will use the official KDE mirror infrastructure for the next packages. This will improve download speed as well as reliability
and will make the distribution of the MS Windows binary packages possible in greater way. Big Thanks go to Ralf Habacker who is working non-stop on our infra-structure and without
whom the kde-windows project wouldn't be possible. The Release of KDE 4.0 seems to have gone by the kde-windows project. The point until now is the following: Since the underlying kdelibs and other libraries aren't as stable as the applications seem to be, we cannot release anything that is in a release state. I am pretty sure that together with the Release of KDE 4.1 the windows version will be in a much better shape which can released then. Installation of the pre-release packages is described here. At the end I want to add a new screen-shot from an application that will hopefully be included again in future kde-windows packages.  (SE) |
January 2nd, 2008 : Pre-Release released now |
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The kde-windows project wishes everybody a happy new year 2008.
Just before the end of the last year new packages have been built, for both msvc and mingw runtime.
Since there probably will not be another release on the 18th of january you should get those packages to see the state KDE on windows has on MS Windows.
We decided to make the following packages: kdelibs/kdepimlibs/kdebase (those are needed for all other modules as a base); kdeedu and kdegames (both are
in a pretty good shape already); kdesdk (providing kate and umbrello) and kdetoys. We had to leave out kdegraphics because the underlying libraries are not building completely under windows, all of extragear because we either haven't tested it yet or it is in too bad shape and koffice because it is just to big ... As work continues in /trunk, we will possibly make new packages available in future - that depends mainly on the number of people that join us. And here is the link again: get kdewin-installer and get the packages. (SE) |
December 19th, 2007 : Pre-Release release |
| Christmas is near: there will be a special present this year for KDE's MS Windows community: A new release is set for the 30th/31st of december. It will contain lots of bug fixes, lots of gimmicks, probably new apps and of course packages for both compilers. There will be a follow-up entry here I hope. (SE) |
December 3rd, 2007 : KDE-Edu Weekend, step and amarok |
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Only yesterday the first KDE-Edu Developer Weekend in Paris ended - with SaroEngels from the kde-windows team taking part and bringing some interesting
news. Besides the good quality the KDE-Edu applications already reached, further improvements were made and new applications are developed who will
eventually enter KDE-Edu module for KDE 4.1: The physical Simulator Step and the School-Test-Application KEduca, which is currently ported to KDE 4. Step uses some integrated simulations to calculate the Newtonian motion of points, compressable and non compressable bodies and lets you use springs to connect them with each other. It was ported to Windows right at this meeting and both apps have been added to the portage/testing section right away. Since Windows is still missing a phonon backend amarok isn't usable at all at the moment. We are looking forward to Qt 4.4 which hopefully provides phonon in one or the other way, nonetheless amarok has been added to the portage/testing section now. For those interested in a glimpse on amarok it can be build with emerge for Windows. Currently there is heavy development going on inside the KDEWin-Installer to reach some points before the KDE 4.0 release in january. That will include installation from the KDE mirrors and the introduction of the user mode. (SE) |
November 17th, 2007 : A new browser at the windows heaven |
 Again thanks to Christian's work on the kioslaves, a new browser is available on the MS Windows platform. The famous KDE-browser and file manager Konqueror is coming just shortly after the related Safari-Browser has found its way to the Windows platform. As known from the *nix-platforms, Konqueror will be an advanced browser and file manager in one application build on top of the KDE Libraries ported to Windows. There are no packages available at the moment so we hope that if you are interested in testing Konqueror now, you should use our Buildtool emerge.  Installation of packages is described here. (SE) |
November 3rd, 2007 : KDE-Beta4 packages are available for download |
| Thanks to Christian, there are new Windows packages for the Beta4 available. They can be downloaded with the kdewin-installer and have the package version 3.95-1. They currently live in the category 'kde 3.95.1'. Be aware that for the msvc-packages you need to install the vcredist package from the tools section. (SE) |
