Re: Update Windows binaries

[Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru>]

About using msys2 binaries instead of pygobject-win32: I'm running meld checkout with mingw64 for several 
months by now.
It contains newer gtk and so shortcuts problems with non-english keyboards 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/129 is solved (which is great!)

But unfortunately it has a huge problem: nearly 1 of 10 invocations hangs on startup. This is very annoying. 
I just reported and crosslinked this as https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/3510 and 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues/174

Apart from this I had several crashes, but they are extremely rare (1 per month with intensive every-day use, 
like 1 from 1000 usages leads to crash).

> Sorry, I accidentally replied instead of reply all.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com>
> Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Update Windows binaries
> To: <ngosang hotmail es>
>
> There's a discussion about Windows builds here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788570. From 
> what I can tell, the slow startup problem has been fixed with that artifact 
> (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaiw/meld/build/artifacts).
>
> Kai, do you want to use that pipeline to do an official binary? Or do you want to move to Mysys2 first?
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:02 PM Ngosang Kplan Strirv <ngosang hotmail es> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I’m really happy using this software in Linux but the Windows versión is a mess.
> >
> > * Current binaries are outdated
> > * Really slow start. About 2 minutes in my laptop
> > * Weird window theme
> >
> > Can I help in any way?
> >
> > Regards
> >
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