Discontinuing Windows Builds
- From: Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>
- To: Gnumeric Mailing List <gnumeric-list gnome
org>
- Subject: Discontinuing Windows Builds
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:42:30 -0400
I have decided to stop releasing and distributing Windows binaries of Gnumeric.
The main reason is that I am uncomfortable with crash reports I see --
crashes that are unlikely to be the fault of Gnumeric, but rather
something in Gtk+ and lower. I haven't observed these crashes myself
(not that I use the Windows builds much) thus making it very hard for
me to debug.
A side reason is that no-one in the Windows world has ever stepped
forward with skill and time. I really have very little out of
creating these binaries, so unless it mostly can take care of itself
then I am not terribly interested.
Volunteers are welcome to pick up where I left it. All source code
and build scripts needed are in the git repository. This is not for
the faint of heart.
Morten
While I understand your reason for discontinuing, I would like to do
a build a couple of times a year for Windows.
First off, I am not a coder, so I don't know how to dig down to find
and debug problems.
But, I have had no crashes in WinXP nor Win8.1 using gnumeric.
My question is what do I need to do a build on a win8.1 platform?
I know I can get the zip or tar.xz archives. But what else do I need
from git(or anywhere for that matter) to do the builds in Windows.
TIA
Bill L
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