Re: Darktable on windows. Was: Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable crashes on a SIGILL

2015-12-18 Thread Pascal Obry
I agree too with Roman. The first key point is to have volunteers with a long term commitment to maintain the windows port. Then propose small and incremental patches to prepare the Windows build. The volunteers need also to build binaries from time to time (stable and dev to test) and follow

Re: Darktable on windows. Was: Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable crashes on a SIGILL

2015-12-18 Thread jeremy rosen
yeah, I agree with Roman on that one... we are quite afraid of the quantity of windows-specific bug that a windows build would bring in. maybe a good approch would be to do windows builds, contribute patches, but not distributing the binaries (or to a very limited number of alpha testers, all of

Re: Darktable on windows. Was: Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable crashes on a SIGILL

2015-12-18 Thread Pascal Obry
Partha, > I am sorry, why am I being copied on this? I've not commented on DT > for quite a long time. Why are you asking? You have been proposing a set of patch for building darktable on Win64. The conditions to have this integrated have been stated clearly by Roman and Tobias, this will avoid

Darktable on windows. Was: Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable crashes on a SIGILL

2015-12-17 Thread Roman Lebedev
And here I thought dt windows bikeshedding was explained to death[1][2] and over :( The problem is *not* building under windows. The problem is maintaining it. What *all* the people trying to bring dt to windows have been doing so far is called packaging, at best. As an example, thus far, no one

Re: Darktable on windows. Was: Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable crashes on a SIGILL

2015-12-17 Thread Erik Duisters
Fine, btw building is not trivial if you include all dependencies. I'll see what i can contribute On Thursday 17 December 2015 21:44:34 Roman Lebedev wrote: > And here I thought dt windows bikeshedding was explained to > death[1][2] and over :( > > The problem is *not* building under windows.