Re: Regarding the "Initial Windows build pipeline using Appveyor" entry in Meld 3.19.0 changelog

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 28 April 2018 at 21:17, Kostas <rick3162 gmail com> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I'd like to test the new version of Meld 3.19.0 in Windows, but
> unfortunately I'm not familiar with building binaries or Python.
>
> The last version of Meld for Windows is http://meldmerge.org/ is from August
> 2016
> and says that *"New Windows builds are currently unavailable"*.
>
> But, in the latest Meld 3.19.0 changelog it says that:
> > "Initial Windows build pipeline using Appveyor".
>
> So, I'm wondering: is there a Appveyor Meld page in where I can download the
> latest Windows binary, i.e. created after every new commit?
> I mean, like the one for e.g. KVIrc:
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/DarthGandalf/kvirc (in: 'Job
> name'|'Artifacts')

Currently, this is:
    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaiw/meld

However, the 3.19.0 build is known to not work because of GTK+
requirements changes. The current effort to change the build to use
MSYS2 instead is what will hopefully fix this. Builds on the meld-3-18
branch should work at this point.

Also, I've configured it to only build tags (i.e., releases) instead
of every commit. I could probably be convinced to change that.

cheers,
Kai