New attempt of an Alpha release

[Pedro de Carvalho Gomes]

Thanks Myriam and Heiko! Here are few comments:

* About the DB, I suggest the following text: "Mysql embedded has been 
discontinued, so will be MariaDB embedded in a near future. So the 
upcoming 3.0 version will see a port to a new DB backend;"

* the new scripting engine does not use QML at the moment. But it 
probably will in the future because many features from Qt4 are not 
present in QJSEngine. For example, it does not export QT widgets. Thus 
scripts that contained windows or menus can't be exhibited. Using QML 
here would be the obvious alternative. But imposes big changes in the 
existing scripts.

Once Myriam publishes the release at the main page, then I will notify 
all the relevant places

Cheers,

Pedro

On 2021-02-04 12:08, Heiko Becker wrote:

> On Wednesday, 3 February 2021 16:56:42 CET, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Please everyone, have a look at the article on the web page, the 
>> draft can
>> be found here:
>>
>> https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/889
>
> Thanks! A few notes:
>
> * Not entirely sure how to phrase that best to avoid confusion, but 
> there were *no* changes inside Amarok to discontinue support for MySQL 
> embebbed. If you still have a version with it, it should work. Or if 
> you want, with a full blown MySQL database server.
>
> * "The upcoming 3.0 version will see a port to a new DB backend;"
>
> To my knowledge, that's not (yet) true. Due to the aforementioned 
> removal of the embedded lib from MySQL (and possibly from Mariadb in 
> the future as a consequence) this would certainly be welcome. I heard 
> somebody talk about working towards SQLite, which would also easily 
> work in flatpaks, but probably comes with performance pains at least 
> with huge collections. Anyway I haven't heard anything of that since 
> quite some time.
>
> * The new scripting engine does indeed use QML, but Pedro is the 
> better person to talk to about this.
>
> * Qt5/Qt4 looks nicer than QT5/QT4, is the official style by the QtC 
> and would also be consisten with the usage in the first sentence.
>
> Best regards,
> Heiko