Hi I really like the idea but keep in mind that keeping a kde setup up and 
running does take a lot of work, and an unlimited set of licences would not 
help us at all if no one manages the vms.
In my experience it is no problem having mingw and msvc setup on one system, 
you probably don't want to compile with both all the time but the system will 
handle it quite fine, in in case of vms the io operations on the same hardware 
would stay the same. 
It still would be useful to have one server instance for mingw and one for msvc 
because then multiple people could work at the same time and as both setups are 
independent the amount of work to manage them is not increased.
 
 
For pacman: pacman is as far as I know only part of msys2 , and quite useful 
there to install dev tools etc, but it is of no use for us, as we don't want 
users to install msys to install kde, and we don't want to develop stuff inside 
of msys.
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

 
From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:37:54 +0100
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses




On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> wrote:


On Monday 20 January 2014 23:20:48 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

> Hello,

>

> Has anyone tried to contact Microsoft to get KDE included in their

> non-profit program?

>

> I got confirmation from Claudia the KDE eV does comply with the requisites

> for German organizations (attached are the terms)

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/nonprofits/whos-el

> igible/

>

> This could give us licenses for Windows (desktop and server) and Visual

> Studio for free (and suually more software too). The Windows Server

> licenses could be used for Jenkins build machines.



Could this be used to provide a virtual machine (or a remote login server)

with all the Qt/KF5 build setup, so that devs not having Windows at all could

easily test their changes?



It depends on what version of Windows we would receive (assuming the optimistic 
case where we actually receive something, of course).
E. g. Windows Server Datacenter version allows for unlimited Windows Server 
VMs. Windows Server Standard allows for only 2 Windows Server VMs. Windows 
Server Essentials no VMs. Windows 7/8/etc VMs are not allowed unless Software 
Assurance is included.


Let's see if we are accepted, then we will see what we can do with whatever we 
receive.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org


(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)


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