[digiKam-users] Nightly builds / docker image?

[Sky Diver]

Thanks Andrey, that would be interesting to explore.

Simon, I already subscribed to the RSS feed a few days ago, but the
latest message over there is about the Release of 6.0.0-beta2.
Indeed, this is too infrequent IMO.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:56 PM Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's actually something that could be improved in the download section
> of the website:
> There are stable releases: https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/,
> pre-releases (betas, RCs): https://download.kde.org/unstable/digikam/
> and weekly snapshots: https://files.kde.org/digikam/
>
> If you want to be notified about new (pre-)releases you can subscribe to
> the news RSS - there will be some other stuff too on it, but infrequently.
>
> On 13/12/2018 14:36, Sky Diver wrote:
> > Thanks Gilles.
> >
> > I understand what you mean regarding docker - it certainly sounds like
> > a hassle to maintain.
> >
> > I already saw the page you refer to, but I was wondering if there's
> > something more up-to-date (didn't know it's being build on a weekly
> > basis).
> >
> > I find it weird that the same version tag (e.g. 6.0.0-beta3) is being
> > used for different builds.
> > E.g.: The version base of my AppImage is
> > digikam-6.0.0-beta3-20181202T170307 while the latest version is
> > digikam-6.0.0-beta3-20181208T111552.
> > I guess the point is that the beta version is a bugfix accumulator.
> >
> > Is there some sort of "Check for Updates" mechanism (myabe even an RSS
> > feed) that would somehow notify of new beta releases?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:18 AM Gilles Caulier
> > <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Le jeu. 13 déc. 2018 à 09:08, SkyDiver <skydivergm at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Are there any AppImage nightly builds to help peeping into bleeding-edge
> >>> updates?
> >>
> >> There are, the weekly build AppImage here :
> >>
> >> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> >>
> >>> Alternatively, is there any docker image to run?
> >>> Alternatively, is there any docker image for building from source code?
> >>
> >> No docker. AppImage take already a lots of time to maintain.
> >>
> >> Gilles Caulier
>
>