Re: Meld on Windows

[Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Meld now includes support for building a Windows MSI. This is very
> early days, but the plan is to make Windows MSIs available for future
> 3.11.x releases. Build instructions are at:
>     https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Meld/BuildingBinaries
>
> Reports of success and failure welcomed, but please consider this to
> be an alpha-quality version at best.
>
> Please note that there are several UI and appearance issues with the
> GTK 3 version of Meld that I haven't had any time to look at... this
> is just about getting an installable Meld on Windows. Any help with
> other platform issues (themes, menu bar location, etc.) would be much
> appreciated.
>
> I'd also like to thank Keegan Witt for maintaining the Portable Python
> bundle of Meld, and helping out with Windows issues. There's obviously
> a decently-sized Meld user base on Windows, so hopefully this first
> step towards 'official' builds will make people's lives easier.
>
> cheers,
> Kai

This is awesome news!

I hope to test the MSI installers as soon as they are available.

For me, the main issue I have with Meld on windows is that there are
quite a few graphical glitches when you scroll the file views quickly
(using the scrollbar). I have not experienced this same problem on
Linux so I guess it is specific to the Windows builds.

Cheers,

Angel