<p dir="ltr">Well--yes. To be brutally honest, amaroK Development is pretty much dead. I told you this in irc about a week ago. The neat thing about open source software is that it's still available for people to update/maintain as they wish, but a quick look at the git log should have made it clear that not much has happened for a few years. So it goes.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 28, 2016 7:07 AM, "Bernd Wechner" <<a href="mailto:bwechner@yahoo.com">bwechner@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Calibri">Amarok development seems pretty dead to me. Not
a single developer out there who'd help a new guy set up an IDE
that works. A single bug blocking release since I stumbled in.
Almost no traffic on the development mailing list bar reminders of
the blocking bug and regression failures. Almost no traffic on the
IRC channel. <br>
<br>
I've sunk so much time into QtDesigner and Kdeveloper but am stuck
insurmountably to get either of these IDEs to work as a debugger
the way I have used Visual Studio and Eclipse for years. <br>
<br>
It is simply hard for me to believe that anyone could be working
on a package like this without functional debugging and in spite
of abundant experience developing software in an abundance of
contexts and with an abundance of tools ranging for disassembled
machine code, through C to Perl and Python and more I have never
felt so stupid and so isolated as in my efforts to get a IDE
working satisfactorily on such a wonderful piece of software.<br>
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And so, regretfully, I will park the whole thing for a while and
turn back to other projects but if I don't find a simple mentor to
help me get an IDE working to debug Amarok I may well turn back to
trying to work on Banshee or Rhythmbox regretfully. <br>
<br>
My achievements are not trivial and I've updated as best I can
this page:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Hacking_On_Amarok_HowTo" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Hacking_On_Amarok_HowTo</a><br>
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I can get the whole code, build it run it, edit it, work on it but
I can't do the one thing I would want to dive into and learn the
innards of a piece of software, debug it, namely set a breakpoint,
hit it and then look at things, see the stack trace, inspect the
variables, walk through code ... but I am confounded, the instant
Amarok forks breakpoints seem never to trigger. <br>
<br>
Heck if Amarok is a dying project perhaps someone can motivate one
of the departing developers to mentor a newcomer, to get some docs
like the one above to a position where any half way experienced
coder can walk in and set themselves up and contribute, if only to
keep it alive.<br>
<br>
Sorry to express frustration thusly, but alas I really have let
some important stuff on my plate slide while stumbling around on
this and have to let it be for a bit. If I am back with a second
wind, I may try and approach the listed developer (About Amarok)
one by one on my knees asking for a mentor or help in motivating
one ;-).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Bernd.<br>
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