New attempt of an Alpha release

[Pedro de Carvalho Gomes]

Great, thanks Myriam.  Let us know as soon as you publish, so I can 
write to the announcement mailing lists

On 2021-02-06 14:05, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Sorry for being a bit slow these days, RL getting in the way...
>
> I rephrased it to the following:
>
> - Amarok now depends on MariaDB embedded, since MySQL embedded was 
> discontinued. If you still have MySQL embedded, this will continue to 
> work, as does a full MySQL Server, of course. Unfortunately we need to 
> be prepared for MariaDB discontinuing the embedded version as well, 
> and we are considering a port to a new DB backend;
>
> - the script engine has been ported to Qt5's QJSEngine. Sadly the lack 
> of features from Qt4's QScriptEngine makes the port limited, so there 
> currently are not many scripts that are compatible. It's likely that a 
> whole new scripting engine (using QML) will replace the current 
> implementation.
>
> I will publish this later today.
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
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