[Geany-Devel] [Test] Geany 1.30 Windows binaries for testing

[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.exe
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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