Hi,
here are new Windows installers for testing. They are built from GIT master.
I could not do any thorough testing yet, just built the installers and tested they are working on a first glance.
There are no big changes regarding the Windows platform as far as I can tell. But the included libraries are up2date with latest MSYS2 and the included "grep" binary is now at version 3.0.
Any feedback is very welcome.
Geany and Plugins downloads: http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.30nightly20170301_setup.exe http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.30nightly20170301_setup....
Happy testing, Enrico
On 2017-03-01 02:10 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
here are new Windows installers for testing. They are built from GIT master.
I could not do any thorough testing yet, just built the installers and tested they are working on a first glance.
There are no big changes regarding the Windows platform as far as I can tell. But the included libraries are up2date with latest MSYS2 and the included "grep" binary is now at version 3.0.
Any feedback is very welcome.
Geany and Plugins downloads: http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.30nightly20170301_setup.exe http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.30nightly20170301_setup....
Works OK for me on a Win7 Pro machine.
Only observations are:
- Still 32-bit, why not using msys2 in 64-bit mode? - The known slow webkit plugin loading issue, it took 30-60 seconds here - In the installer for GP, the "configure components" page, the description for Dependencies checkbox is very long and the window isn't resizable so the text gets cut off.
Other than those (non-critical) issues, it looks great!
Regards, Matthew Brush
On 2017-03-05 02:37 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2017-03-01 02:10 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
here are new Windows installers for testing. They are built from GIT master.
I could not do any thorough testing yet, just built the installers and tested they are working on a first glance.
There are no big changes regarding the Windows platform as far as I can tell. But the included libraries are up2date with latest MSYS2 and the included "grep" binary is now at version 3.0.
Any feedback is very welcome.
Geany and Plugins downloads: http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.30nightly20170301_setup.exe http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.30nightly20170301_setup....
Works OK for me on a Win7 Pro machine.
Only observations are:
- Still 32-bit, why not using msys2 in 64-bit mode?
- The known slow webkit plugin loading issue, it took 30-60 seconds here
- In the installer for GP, the "configure components" page, the
description for Dependencies checkbox is very long and the window isn't resizable so the text gets cut off.
Other than those (non-critical) issues, it looks great!
Oh also, and this will probably be done before release anyway, but the copyright date is still 2016 on the installer .exes and the geany.exe when you look in the Properties->Details tab in Windows.
Regards, Matthew Brush
Hi,
Any feedback is very welcome.
Geany and Plugins downloads: http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.30nightly20170301_setup.exe http://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-plugins-1.30nightly20170301_setup....
Works OK for me on a Win7 Pro machine.
Only observations are:
- Still 32-bit, why not using msys2 in 64-bit mode?
Lazyness. If we would provide 64bit binaries we probably would have to provide 32bit binaries as well. As long as there are no issues (compability, performance, dependencies, whatever) with using 32bit binaries on 64bit platforms, I'd like to keep it this way.
Or anyone else steps up to provide the Windows release support.
- The known slow webkit plugin loading issue, it took 30-60 seconds here
Too bad, for me it felt faster but obviously not.
- In the installer for GP, the "configure components" page, the
description for Dependencies checkbox is very long and the window isn't resizable so the text gets cut off.
Yes, known issue (exists for multiple releases already) but I don't know a solution. Maybe this gets better when upgrading to NSIS 3.x.
Oh also, and this will probably be done before release anyway, but the copyright date is still 2016 on the installer .exes and the geany.exe when you look in the Properties->Details tab in Windows.
Thanks for the pointer, fixed.
Regards, Enrico