Moving from 5.1.3 to 5.1.80 feedback

[Blimundus]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, at 15:44, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Mike,
> 
>> On Sonntag, 24. August 2025 08:01:51 CEST Blimundus via KMyMoney wrote:
>> 
>> And finally, https://kmymoney.org/macos.html describes the current status of KMyMoney on MacOS. I'm definitely not qualified to help out here, and I don't really need any of the 5.2 features, but I was wondering whether there's anywhere where I can read up on whether further mac builds are planned? Or in other words: are we hoping for the right person to come along to make new builds, or is there a technical blocker that means that this may be a dead end?
> 
> Well, to be honest, it's a bit of all of that. The dev team (unfortunately)
> is very small. The versions we provide drop of the KDE CI/CD infrastructure
> which is maintained and developed by a completely different (though KDE)
> team. The code to support builds for MacOS is available, but it fails along
> the way for some MacOS specific reason and thus has been disabled to save
> energy and compile resources for others. It requires someone with the
> necessary knowledge to figure out and fix. So far, we don't have that
> knowledge on the KMyMoney team. 
> 
> So to answer your questions: builds are not planned but wanted and we're
> hoping for the right person to show up to fix the technical (MacOS specific)
> blocker. I would not call it a dead end. Maybe, you have ideas where to
> recruit that person or can even help out to find one.

1. I've read various forum and mailing list threads about this and related issues, dating from early 2024 to today. However, I could not find a place where this is being tracked in a bug tracker. Any pointers?

2. I did a very surface level check of the download instructions for KMyMoney on the website, without checking what actually works for me at this stage, but rather just checking the consistency of the information presented. Here are the results:

The KMyMoney download page (Download | KMyMoney <https://kmymoney.org/download.html>) could be clarified:
- Under the Linux section, the link to 'Snapcraft package' gives me a 404 error.
- Under the Source code archive section, the link to the 'KDE TechBase wiki' brings up a page that says that the documentation has moved to 'GitLab wiki' - so a direct link would be better.
- The 'flatpak' option mentioned by Jochen below is not listed (just an observation, I don't know flatpak and whether it should be listed).

> On 8/24/25 10:58 AM, Jochen via KMyMoney wrote:
>> Am 24.08.25 um 15:44 schrieb Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney:
>>> Since your version is about 18 months old, I would not suggest to
>>> open bug reports on it.
>> unfortunately 5.1.3 is the version which is still distributed in 
>> Debian testing.
> 
> Unfortunately, that is likely true of any older LTS distribution. The 
> downside of stability is not being able to get the latest and greatest.  
> There is nothing the KMyMoney team can do about that. However, you can 
> use any of the self-contained versions, such as Appimage, snap, or flatpak.

Then, for the macos specific page (Download and use the MacOS version | KMyMoney <https://kmymoney.org/macos.html>):
- The page mentions that the x86_64 build process is currently broken but, as far as I understand it (forgive me, IAAL not a programmer), the arm64 build process is also broken (for the same or for a different reason?), and for any recent M-chip macs, that is particularly relevant. Of course, good idea to keep the links to the most recent working build.

Kind regards

Michaël
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