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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Brian, thank you for all of your hard work getting kicad-winbuilder to
work.  I know it was a monumental task just getting Python to build
using the old mingw32 platform.

@Nick, thank you for taking up the charge for creating nightly build
windows installers.  While msys2/mingw makes building kicad much easier
than the legacy msys1/mingw32 system, creating an installer on top of
that was no small task.

Thanks again to both of you for all of your hard work.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 10/6/2015 11:37 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> I've just killed KiCad-Winbuilder on launchpad (
> https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder ), but fear not!
> 
> Nick Østergaard is now maintaining the MSYS2/mingw-w64 version of
> KiCad-Winbuilder on GitHub (
> https://github.com/nickoe/KiCad-Winbuilder )
> 
> Thanks to Nick who's been working on the MSYS2 version of the tool
> tool such that it's capable of creating the release candidate
> installer and is now being used for providing snapshot releases via
> the KiCad website ( http://kicad-pcb.org/download/windows/ ) and
> thanks to anyone who's provided patches/pull requests and the like to
> get it sorted out.
> 
> Thanks also to Orson for his support when we needed it to get the GAL
> up and running on Windows.
> 
> With the addition of the Recent Builds to the KiCad website there's no
> need for users to build their own using KiCad-Winbuilder anymore -
> just download a recent build and don't suffer the pain of building on
> Windows; Building on Windows is really no fun for anyone!
> 
> I'm surprised the latest download on Launchpad had reached 30,000+
> downloads! That's a lot of computing power that's been directed at
> building KiCad so I'm sure the Recent Builds part of the website is
> going to be really popular.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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