Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

+1 for small nightlies, it's always a pain to wait 30mins to download a nightly to test when you have the time, but by the time it's done downloading, you don't have time anymore. On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 6:47 AM Mark Roszko wrote: > >The long term plan is to build an MSI based installer,

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

>The long term plan is to build an MSI based installer, because that leaves MSI is an absolute actual disaster to maintain and when it implodes you have to whip out the registry editors and system clenaers to erase any vestigal traces of metadata it uses to be able to even correct a package. Even

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

Hi, On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 08:13:43AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > AFAICT this has not been tested using nightly builds to ensure there are > no issues before we put it into production. The -patch installers are built without the library, and have been tested to install fine on top of

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

I am fine with this this change but not for the stable 5.1.3 release. AFAICT this has not been tested using nightly builds to ensure there are no issues before we put it into production. The only downside I see is that it will double the number of installers per build so that could be an issue.

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

Hi, On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:04:15AM -0700, Andrew Lutsenko wrote: > I agree, if my proposal won't be accepted as is then whatever changes I > will make should be properly tested and won't be rushed for 5.1.3. But if > no changes will be required then all the hard work is done already. Just >

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

I agree, if my proposal won't be accepted as is then whatever changes I will make should be properly tested and won't be rushed for 5.1.3. But if no changes will be required then all the hard work is done already. Just need to merge the PR, run the build and upload both executables. On Wed, Jul

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

For what it's worth, I don't have extra download costs and have decent speed, but it's still very frustrating to download 1G instead of ~150M from day to day. This would be very nice for nightly builds, and as far as can remember, people have complained especially about size of nighly builds.

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

+1 from a user. On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:25 PM Andrew Lutsenko wrote: > Friendly ping :) > This is about a 2 year old > bug that users > still complain > > regularly >

Re: [Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

Friendly ping :) This is about a 2 year old bug that users still complain regularly

[Kicad-developers] RFC: KiCad windows installer proposal

Hi all, I recently sent a PR to kicad-winbuilder repo that implements a proposal for new installers: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/pull/86 I'm sharing this here for more visibility since it looks like there may be division of opinions (Seth is on board with my idea while Nick has