Hello All,

regarding Windows build using MSYS. I can confirm that building works.
Some adjustments in the guides still needed (references to bzr.). Thanks for the guide to Eduard.
Building uses ninja backend of cmake in fafour to make. I haven't timed the build but my impression is far better than cmake/make combination.

I would prefer option 1) MSYS2 only release.
We need to see the impact on installer.

my 2 ct,

Adib.
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> wrote:
Am 16.07.2017 um 07:23 schrieb Bryce Harrington: 
Let me know if there is anything else that should be done or accounted
for in the above plan.

Hi Bryce,

thanks for pinning down a schedule!

I have a list of three items that we should address before a 0.92.2 release. The first two are "simple" bugs which I think are too bad to ship another release with them (i.e. "blockers"):
  • Windows print bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1665768 ).
    Our mingw-w64 based builds (devlibs64 and MSYS2) currently crash for many people when attempting to print. I was finally able to reproduce the bug on a machine I control, so I hope I'll be able to debug it soon. I'll keep you updated. (Any help is obviously appreciated)
  • Line height bugs (there were more than one if I'm not mistaken): What's the current status on them?
    I was not actively involved in the discussions and have never touched the relevant code, but from my own experiences and comments from a lot of people at work this is a serious deal-breaker for any productive work. I'd like to ask everybody who knows that part of our codebase and/or tracked the bugs/reports to make 100% sure they're all sorted out and report back!
Finally there's one important thing we'd need to figure out for Windows builds which I don't want to decide myself, so I hope it's fine if I use this possibility to get peoples input:
  • I was working hard on improving MSYS2 builds on Windows and at this point I'd say they are superior to our old devlibs builds in every respect:
  • Many bugs that were caused by outdated libraries were fixed (plus we obviously can profit from all improvements that were made to those libraries in the meantime)
  • Many things that were broken due to missing / misconfigured libraries could be sorted out
  • Some new features can be provided that depend on optional libraries (e.g. gtkspell)
That's the reason why I want to provide a 0.92.2 release built with MSYS2. However (and that's the big "but") they obviously had far less testing so far (but that's yet another reason why we need to get a release out there!), so I see four options:
  1. Release MSYS2-only and hope it works out as well as I want to believe (this option makes sure people test it ;-) )
  2. Release MSYS2 as the main release but provide a backup built with devlibs in case we see unexpected issues (this is the option I'd prefer)
  3. Release devlibs, but offer MSYS2 as a "public beta" (sounds not bad, but I'm pretty sure most people will stick to what they know for which we can't blame them)
  4. Release devlibs-only for the 0.92.x branch (which would be a shame in my opinion. Personally I'd prefer an MSYS2 build over a devlibs build for productive work at any time and I think users should profit from the improvements, also - or especially - in the stable branch).

Let me know what you think (preferably soon-ish) so I can prioritize my work for the release!

Regards,
Eduard




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