Re: Outdated win32 bundle

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

> > I plan starting with 3.16, but got no response so far regarding my
> > request to access the build system.

Nothing to add to what Emmanuele stated, except that the the build machine 
is a RHEL6 x86_64 system (maybe upgradable to RHEL7, have no clue) and you 
can take that as a basis to create the CI system on one of your computers or 
VMs. 

Regards,
Tarnyko 

Emmanuele Bassi writes: 

> Hi; 
>
> On 8 June 2015 at 19:02, Bálint Réczey <balint balintreczey hu> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel, 
> >
> > 2015-06-07 16:57 GMT+02:00 Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com>:
> > > Please use at least Gtk+ 3.14.9 because it fixes a bug on GtkFileChooser to
> > > access Desktop directory.
> > I plan starting with 3.16, but got no response so far regarding my
> > request to access the build system.
>
> Likely because you're using gtk-list@, which nobody in the GTK team
> follows (except, I think, me). 
>
> Thanks for your offer of taking over the build on Windows. 
>
> The current stance of everyone involved in the Windows backend for
> GLib and GTK+ is to stop advertising binary builds for Windows — as we
> don't do that for any other platform, and nobody sticks around long
> enough to keep doing that or to set up a continuous integration build
> for GTK. 
>
> Developers using the G* core platform libraries on Windows are
> strongly encouraged to use the MSYS2 distribution: 
>
>   https://msys2.github.io/ 
>
> This will provide you with pre-built packages that are known to work
> and maintained. It also allows you to build your own packages on top
> of it, and create an installer from the result. 
>
> What the GTK team would love, on the other hand, is somebody putting
> the effort in setting up and maintaining a continuous integration
> service — similar to https://build.gnome.org — for Windows builds.
> This way we would be able to catch build regressions after every
> commit, without relying on the application developers to file bugs. 
>
> If you want to coordinate this effort, you can use the gtk-devel-list
> mailing list, and possibly join IRC to talk with the GTK developers
> and the gnome.org system administrators, in order to get a CI build
> going on the gnome.org servers. 
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele. 
>
> > > El jun 7, 2015 6:23 AM, "Balint Reczey" <balint balintreczey hu> escribió:
> > > > Hi, 
> > > >
> > > > On 01/20/2015 05:11 PM, Tarnyko wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I have an access to the "win32builder.gnome.org" machine, but it uses my
> > > > > private SSH key. I guess you have to ask for access for another
> > > > > account/key.
> > > > > It is more a question of whether you, or anyone interested in this
> > > > > discussion, feels able to maintain the bundle (I mean, for more than a
> > > > > few releases) and keep presence on IRC and the mailing lists to answer
> > > > > requests
> > > > I gave it some thought and I would like to give a try to maintaining the
> > > > official Win32/64 bundle to make it usable for Wireshark and others. 
> > > >
> > > > If you accept my help to whom should I have to send my public ssh key?
> > > > I'm already maintaining Wireshark and other packages in Debian and
> > > > probably I won't mess up the server. :-) 
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Balint 
> > > >
> > > > PS: I'm not an IRC guy but I read act on emails. 
> > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Tarnyko
> > > > > Bálint Réczey writes:
> > > > >> Hi Anatoly,
> > > > >> 2015-01-17 9:11 GMT+01:00 anatoly techtonik <techtonik gmail com>:
> > > > >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Gian Mario Tagliaretti
> > > > >>> <g tagliaretti gmail com> wrote:
> > > > >>>> On 3 January 2015 at 21:06, anatoly techtonik <techtonik gmail com>
> > > > >>>> wrote:
> > > > >>>>> Win32 download page at http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php lists
> > > > >>>>> GTK+ 3.6.4 as the current maintained version, but
> > > > >>>>> http://win32builder.gnome.org/ also lists 3.8.2 and 3.10.4 as
> > > > >>>>> available. Is that intentional?
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> you can also use MSYS2 [1] to have the latest GTK+ and a lot more
> > > > >>>> goodies, currently 3.14.6 [2]
> > > > >>>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/
> > > > >>>> [2] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Thanks for the pointers. I am more concerned with that most people on
> > > > >>> Windows use outdated Gtk+ version, rather than with where is the
> > > > >>> bleeding edge. Is there something that could be fixed in build system
> > > > >>> to update Windows download pages with links to latest stable versions
> > > > >>> automatically?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I think this is the latest status of the Windows builds:
> > > > >> https://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2014/06/26/gtk-builder-for-windows/
> > > > >> If the builds are OK, you need to convince the GTK+ devs to build them
> > > > >> on their official build system and put them online, like Tanyko did.
> > > > >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695600
> > > > >> Cheers,
> > > > >> Balint
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