News and discussions around WinDirStat
We are currently in search for beta-testers.
The next final release will be preceded by a semi-public beta-test. I’d like anyone who is interested to reply here or contact me through the contact form on the website. There will be a beta-website that will be password-protected. You will be able to download the latest build there and report issues or see which issues have been solved in which build.
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// Oliver
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// Oliver
Hi,
I saw a raise in number of downloads after my announcement yesterday. However, it is not necessary to download WDS again if you already have it installed. The version contained in the re-released packages is still 1.1.2!
A beta phase will soon start and I hope that some of our users can be found who are interested in testing WDS, so that the upcoming release will be as great as any previous ones.
// Oliver
Today I made a re-release of 1.1.2. This only affects the installer and the ZIP archive. The source and consequently the binary files - inside the archives and the installer - have not been touched.
As I mentioned earlier there have been reports of corrupt archives. To mitigate the problem I just re-packed the ZIP files once more using WinRAR instead of 7-ZIP. This should be more downward-compatible. I removed the old setup.exe from the ZIP archives as it is not supported anymore.
The installer is now the preferred deployment method and supersedes the old setup.exe. German support has been added to the installer, since WinDirStat was chosen to be included on the CD of a famous German computer magazine. Otherwise this support would have been added with the next major release.
// Oliver
In the last week, an article of the Chicago Tribune caused a lot of trouble. The author of the article mentioned WinDirStat, but linked to KDirStat from his article. Many of the readers tried to download the KDirStat archive, but were disappointed that it did not work. This was only natural, though, since the archive was meant for KDE running on Linux.
So what is KDirStat then? Whoever read the about box of WinDirStat will have noticed, that Bernhard was inspired by KDirStat and wrote WinDirStat. So if you will, WinDirStat could be considered a clone or port of KDirStat, although neither description really fits the relationship. However, the projects KDirStat and WinDirStat are not otherwise related except for the aforementioned relationship. Continue reading ‘KDirStat is not WinDirStat …’