7.1.0 Release and students branches merge...

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

I'm facing a problem, step by step with the Macports packages. I
updated Xcode to last stable, and now plenty of packages are broken at
compile time. I report these problems one by one to Macports bugzilla.
It advances but slowly. So It's possible that I will delay until next
week end the release.

The problem with Macports is that we cannot go back to a previous
version of a package, and when a package compilation is broken, it's
generally a good idea to recompile all from scratch, to be sure, due
to side effects.

To conclude, before to release a major version of digiKam:

NEVER update Apple compiler.
NEVER recompile whole Macports.
NEVER update MacOS even if there are security issues.
etc...

It's always a waste of time...

Best

Gilles

Le lun. 31 août 2020 à 10:04, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> This morning, i think the MacOS build will be fixed, after 3 days of
> intensive search. In fact the XCode compiler was badly updating a
> signature on the computer and Macports was unable to detect the right
> compiler version and fail to compile a few packages.
>
> I will tag 7.1.0 now and start to merge students' branches to master
> as planed : Kartik in first and Nghia in second.
>
> 7.2.0 developpement will be ready to start soon. I will release 7.1.0
> tarball and bundles using the git tag as well. I need to check if all
> compile fine from the Application first.When all is ready i will send
> another mail here...
>
> Best
>
> Gilles
>
> Le mar. 25 août 2020 à 06:11, Thanh Trung Dinh
> <dinhthanhtrung1996 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Gilles,
> >
> > Yes, I think this is the most stable way. Since Nghia has also worked on some interfaces between facesmanagement and facesengines, merging his branch at last is more appropriate.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 10:13 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We are near 7.1.0. This one will be a maintenance release with
> >> improvements and a huge bugs triaging.
> >>
> >> I plan to release 7.1.0 this weekend if AppImage build is restored.
> >> Currently all is broken with a Qt 5.15 migration which does not work.
> >> I revert all to Qt 5.14.2.
> >>
> >> When 7.1.0 will be tagged, it will be time to merge student branches to master.
> >>
> >> I propose to merge back Kartik branch, synchronise Nghia branch with
> >> master, fix build, and merge back Nghia branch to master.
> >>
> >> This plan is fine for you ?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Gilles