On Thursday 20 Dec 2012, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > > Currently Linux is our only officially supported platform, this is why > > build issues (and other critical issues) on Linux become release > > blockers. Windows and Mac OSX support is still considered work in > > progress and experimental. Hopefully it will change some time in the > > future. > > Well, given that we've got a build bot on windows and build packages for > all the releases, I'd say we should upgrade the status of Windows as a > supported platform.
I agree I think we should for next release. But I am also puzzled why a last minute source code refactor is needed then. > > But we also have to take into considerations some pratical aspects, like > > 95% of developers and "master" testers are using linux at the moment, > > which means errors are caught very quickly on Linux, and this is not the > > case for Windows/Mac OSX, it also means that a huge refactor is usually > > not necesserary to solve build issues on Linux. And before we consider > > Windows/Mac OSX, the build on those platform need to stabilize and we > > would need to find practical solutions to the lack of testing problem, > > like nightly/continuous build on build.kde.org. > > http://build.kde.org/job/calligra_master_win32/ Last one is December, 5th. And I guess we would need it for release branch. An alternative is to have a release day freeze/compile party, and on that day "platform maintainers" build calligra from scratch and report the result to the release coordinator. But that require some heavy synchronization work. -- Cyrille Berger Skott _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
