[digikam] [Bug 350446] Port MacOS PKG to Arm64 Apple Silicon.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350446

--- Comment #21 from caulier.gilles at gmail.com ---
For Craft, i tried few years ago to use it without success :

Mysql/mariadb support in Qt not supported. I ask to add it but it was
immediately refused : this require changes with server included and many
dependencies.

HEIF support not implemented with X264 and x265 codecs. About patents, this
cannot be included safety.

ffmpeg do not include non free / gpl3 codecs support.

The puzzle: plenty of applications uses craft build with different needs /
config / usage. This is not compatible with the digiKam requirements. We needs
a stable env to bundle, not soething broken days after days because plenty of
developer touch the configurations without to double check all the usage.

The CI/CD from KDE uses gitlab, whoch is limited to one hour of compilation.
digiKam and 3rd party plugins + build packaging explode this limit. digiKam is
1.5 M od C++ code. If we touch something in core API, all will be recompiled
and compilation cannot be completed. 

For all this problems, i focused to Macports and this take age for me to
maintain and finalize packaging. Here i have 2 macbook pro : one intel and one
Arm. I written ann bash scripts to package all digiKam needs, as Mysql support,
codecs, relocatable install, etc.

Of course installer is not notarized, but we don't care... It's always possible
to install digiKam as 3r party application outside the store.

Note: the same problematic exists with the Windows build. We don't use Craft
but VCPKG from Microsoft and it do very well the job. Here 2 Windows 10 VMs run
on my Linux host computer : one for Qt5, one for Qt6. 

Voilà, so for me Craft is not a safe solution for digiKam...

Gilles Caulier

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