kdev-python in KDevelop 5.6.0

[Francis Herne]

On Saturday, 3 October 2020 11:34:40 BST Sven Brauch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> unfortunately, we have quite a bad crash bug in kdev-python 5.6.0 in
> some build configurations (python < 3.9), so it would be nice to release
> a fix before too long. Are there already plans for KDevelop 5.6.1?
> Sorry, I'm not very in-the-loop at the moment. ;)
> 
> I could do something like writing the announcement web page and emails
> though, if that helps.
> 
> All the best!
> Sven

Hi Sven,

I offered to do the release (particularly AppImage builds) this time.

Was hoping to sooner, but trying to bump the Python version in the AppImage 
past 3.6 runs into problems (because CentOS is so damn ancient and OpenSSL 
lacks versioned symbols) that I haven't yet found a good solution to.
Suggestions welcome there.

I intend to make the release by the end of this week at the latest -- if I 
can't get a modern Python version working by then it'll have to wait.

It would be nice to get some of Igor Kushnir's fixes reviewed and merged first 
too, there's quite a backlog on GitLab now...

-Francis