Re: kdev-python in KDevelop 5.6.0

Milian Wolff <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:54:52 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop
Message-ID	<7083564.4mD9tFJMoW@milian-workstation>
Hey all,

going all TOFU on this for now, but I just noticed that there's already a blog 
post for 5.6.1 in the working - great! I'm in the process of preparing 5.6.1 
now and will publish it all during the next days.

Regarding the AppImage: the existing scripts are completely broken now that 
centos 6 is EOL. I'll try to find the time to modernize those based on some 
new appimage infrastructure that I worked on recently [1] which should 
hopefully make it easier for projects to share the common tasks in creating an 
appimage.

[1]: https://invent.kde.org/mwolff/kf5-appimage-centos7

On Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2020 07:12:12 CET Kevin Funk wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 00:14:55 CEST Francis Herne wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Huhu,
> 
> Maybe it's time to switch to a newer CentOS image altogether?
> 
> The current appimage Dockerfile says we're still on 6.10, but that will be
> End-Of-Life end next month. Good time to upgrade?
>   https://wiki.centos.org/Download
> 
> CentOS 7.x is a good candidate, it has a reasonably old base (got released
> 2014) which could make KDevelop work on wide range of distros.
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#Versioning_and_releases
> 
> Also: Milian at this point has more current experience with AppImages due to
> KDAB duties; maybe he has some ideas regarding an image upgrade as well.⎄
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
> > 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


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