7.1.0 Release and students branches merge...

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

After one week of work, I finally restored the MacOS build workflow by
reversing the XCode version. Apple has simply forwarded a beta  update
to the users in AppStore and of course i updated without a double
check. AppStore must propose a stable version, not beta version !

Now all compile and run fine. I tag 7.1.0 on git and prepare final
files for the release targeted to Sunday.

Best

Gilles

Le mar. 1 sept. 2020 à 09:34, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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