Re: Looking for a maintainer of the Aisleriot installer for Windows

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi;

Le Fri, 01 May 2009 22:11:48 +0200,
Tom Bass <tom bass zoho com> a écrit :
> I formerly built the installer for gnome games on windows. After not 
> hearing anything from the community regarding this installer (gnome 
> games on win at all) I thought, the work is not needed anymore. So if 
> there's still some interest and no one else likes to do the work, I
> can maintain this installer (maybe start also on porting stuff to
> win) further on, esp. fixing the mentioned bugs, etc.
> 
> Just gimme a mail, if there's still some interest.

I can't really estimate how much interested there is in
Aisleriot-on-Windows; the existing installer .exe is gone from the
location linked at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/Windows and 
download stats are probably also not available. 

Still, there at least seems to be some interest in running Gnome
programmes on Windows; we recently got better installers for the
glib/pango/gtk+/etc platform stack, and a few Gnome apps were ported to
Windows, e.g. Gedit. That's why I though I'd ask if anyone was
interested in keeping Aisleriot/Windows alive :)

	Christian

> 
> Christian Persch schrieb:
> > Is anyone interested in working on the installer for Aisleriot
> > (and possibly the other games from Gnome Games) for Windows? 
> >
> > There's already a prototype windows installer of Aisleriot [see
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/Windows] (the NSIS files are in
> > gnome-games' git repo in /windows/nsis/), but it's very old now,
> > unmaintained and has a few bugs (e.g. #467440, #526278). 
> >
> > Compiling Aisleriot on windows is untested in later versions, so
> > it's possible that some minor code issues will also need to be
> > resolved, which I'm willing to help with. The other games have
> > never been tried on windows, but since by now we removed the Gnome
> > library dependencies, they should be portable with only a small
> > amount of code changes required.
> >
> > Regards,
> > 	Christian
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