Hi, The 1.4.0 release of win-builds is now officially available at http://win-builds.org .
The win-builds.org project is a package manager along with free software packages. Everything can be ran on Windows (with or without MSYS*/Cygwin), Linux and other systems. It focuses on stability and versatility. The main changes in this version are bug fixes and usability improvements. Packages have been updated too, in particular wrt security issues. GDB, libao, libid3tag, madplay, libmad, libsndfile, libtasn1, pcre, harfbuzz, fribidi, have been added. Most EFL packages (eet, embryo, edje, ecore, evas, eina) have been merged together by upstream into a single "efl" package. This brings the package count to over 60. Installation has been greatly simplified; package updates even more so: double-clicking on yypkg.exe is enough to update packages. All pango, cairo, gdk, fontconfig caches are properly created at the end of installation; moreover, fontconfig's fc-cache stopped leaking memory. While there was an attempt to handle security updates in the previous versions, some things didn't work out so well. This version fixes them and security updates will be provided. Tooling on Linux has been made simpler and more efficient. Build procedure has been changed slightly: it now builds the cross-toolchain on each machine and reuses the windows packages, giving great flexibility while saving most of the build time. It has been tested on Exherbo, Slackware Linux, Debian Jessie and is compatible back to wheezie and Ubuntu 12.04. Documentation has been updated and improved. There are also countless improvements which add up and make for a much improved and matured release. Note however that it isn't possible to update a 1.3 installation to 1.4 without manual intervention because of the tooling changes. If really needed, get in touch on the bug tracker. Website: http://win-builds.org Downloads: http://win-builds.org/download.html Documentation: http://win-builds.org/documentation.html Bug Tracker: http://win-builds.org/bugs/ Mailing-lists: http://win-builds.org/support.html Git repositories: http://cgit.notk.org/adrien/yypkg/ Happy installation, Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The best possible search technologies are now affordable for all companies. Download your FREE open source Enterprise Search Engine today! Our experts will assist you in its installation for $59/mo, no commitment. Test it for FREE on our Cloud platform anytime! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=145328191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
