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[Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brendan,

Thanks indeed for all the work you have done!

Cheers,
Paulo

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:25 AM Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> Thank you for all your hard work over the years, I very much appreciate it
> and I know lots and lots of zim users do too !
>
> I've pinned the ticket for windows installer work on the top of the issue
> list in github hoping it will be picked up by a new volunteer. WIll also
> link this email with instructions for future reference there.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:56 AM Brendan Kidwell <snarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had another go at updating my Windows package building workflow, for
>> Zim 0.70+ using Python 3 and GTK 3. It does not go well.
>>
>> The only good way I could come up with to install GTK 3 for Python 3 in
>> Windows is using the MSYS2 system, and this much does work -- see below!
>> Unfortunately, moving forward from there I could not get any of the
>> installer builder systems for Python to work.
>>
>> These installer builder tools do the hard work of putting your source
>> code into some kind of bundle and copying the Python interpreter and all
>> the libraries and resource files you depend on into your build folder. I
>> got the furthest with Pyinstaller, but it does not work. Pyinstaller
>> created a 'dist' folder corrupted filenames/paths for "_struct_python-37m"
>> and "zlib-cpython-37m". I copies those in from the installed files in
>> MSYS2, but then when I ran the result, Python says it can't find 'math'.
>> That sounds bad.
>>
>> Issue 4125 on pyinstaller has been open for a few months about this.
>> https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/4125
>>
>> I have decided that personally I do not have the time and energy to deal
>> with this anymore. Building a Windows VM to work in is a pain, and my
>> personal netbook can't possibly even do this job so I have to use something
>> else when I'm working on the Windows installer for Zim.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> So I am officially no longer the maintainer of the Windows installer for
>> Zim. Going forward, please use my manual install instructions reference
>> below, or use the installer for Zim 0.69, which still works fine and its
>> payload is relatively bug-free.
>>
>> I will keep my Zim web site about the IRC chat room and about the old
>> Windows installer online indefinitely.
>>
>> I am eager to help anyone else take over the role of building a new
>> installer for Zim on Windows. I can explain the work I did on the old GTK
>> 2-compatiable installer, and I'm happy to host any builds the new
>> maintainer can get working, if they do not host it themselves.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> I spent a couple of hours documenting how to install Zim manaully, from
>> source, on Windows 7 or later, using the MSYS2 software catalog and package
>> manager. *Unfortuantely, you will need 1GB of space to do it!* If this
>> doesn't sound like a good idea for you or if the howto below is too
>> complicated, please continue using Zim 0.69 for Windows found on my web
>> site at https://zim.glump.net/windows/ .
>>
>> Here are my instructions for installing Zim 0.70 or later under MSYS2:
>>
>> https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Install-Zim-0.70-or-Later-in-Windows
>>
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