Windows testing
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:50 pm
One constant problem the Freeciv project has, is that while our Windows version has notable userbase, the development team uses almost exclusively linux (and Mac OS X). Only some of us have occasional opportunities to test how things wrk on Windows.
So, even if you cannot contribute code, art, or translations to the project, simply testing things on Windows for us would be great help for the project.
I have capability to make crosser-based builds for Windows always (as they are cross-compiled on my linux), and occasional opportunity to make Windows installer builds.
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One thing we would need evaluated is what version of gtk3 Windows bundle works best with freeciv 2.5 gtk3-client. Freeciv does not require any functionality introduced after gtk3-3.4, so in theory any version after that should work. Unfortunately we've very well learned with the gtk2-client that simply taking the latest version is not always the best option. While in newer versions old bugs get fixed, and new features get introduced (which we don't need, as I said), so get new bugs (regressions), and we've had the situation where we've effectively forced to choose between bugs when selecting gtk bundle version.
I've now built freeciv gtk3-client with all currently available Windows gtk3 bundles (3.4.2, 3.6.4, 3.8.2, 3.10.4). Freeciv itself in all these builds is exactly the same, so only the gtk3 bundle used is different. It would be important for us to know if some of them has serious problems some other does not. We've currently using 3.6.4, so we would also be interested to know if updating from that would improve things in general.
Installers are available from http://download.gna.org/freeciv/package ... gtk3-test/
So, even if you cannot contribute code, art, or translations to the project, simply testing things on Windows for us would be great help for the project.
I have capability to make crosser-based builds for Windows always (as they are cross-compiled on my linux), and occasional opportunity to make Windows installer builds.
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One thing we would need evaluated is what version of gtk3 Windows bundle works best with freeciv 2.5 gtk3-client. Freeciv does not require any functionality introduced after gtk3-3.4, so in theory any version after that should work. Unfortunately we've very well learned with the gtk2-client that simply taking the latest version is not always the best option. While in newer versions old bugs get fixed, and new features get introduced (which we don't need, as I said), so get new bugs (regressions), and we've had the situation where we've effectively forced to choose between bugs when selecting gtk bundle version.
I've now built freeciv gtk3-client with all currently available Windows gtk3 bundles (3.4.2, 3.6.4, 3.8.2, 3.10.4). Freeciv itself in all these builds is exactly the same, so only the gtk3 bundle used is different. It would be important for us to know if some of them has serious problems some other does not. We've currently using 3.6.4, so we would also be interested to know if updating from that would improve things in general.
Installers are available from http://download.gna.org/freeciv/package ... gtk3-test/