On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 8:09 AM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
>
> We have various dependencies needed for the forthcoming alpha release.  It's 
> not vital they all have releases in time for the alpha, we can expect distros 
> to just make their own git exports as needed, but it would be nice to have 
> releases.
>
> plasma-wayland-protocols - last releases in January I believe this needs an 
> update.  Aleix usually makes there releases.  No Qt5 faff needed.
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/plasma-wayland-protocols
>
> libqaccessibilityclient
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/libqaccessibilityclient
> I made the most recent release of this in 2019 (amazing what one is 
> sometimes), I think it's ready to go for a Qt 6 release, it's used by kwin 
> and kmag which have both been ported to Qt 6 so no Qt 5 release needed.
>
> polkit-qt-1
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/polkit-qt-1
> Last released in 2021 by Heiko it builds fine from master with 
> -DQT_MAJOR_VERSION=6.  Distros will need both a Qt 5 and Qt 6 build so I 
> propose to make a new release for Qt 6 and another one called polkit-qt5-1 
> with the same contents for Qt 5 builds.
>

Why not take the opportunity to rename this to always include the Qt
major version?

> phonon
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/phonon/
> 4.11.1 released 2019 by Harald https://community.kde.org/Phonon/Releases/Core
> master now builds both Qt 5 and 6 fine so I propose just making a 4.12.0 
> release
>
> phonon-vlc
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/phonon-vlc
> 0.11.3 released by Harald in 2021. 
> https://community.kde.org/Phonon/Releases/VLC/0.11.3
> master now builds both Qt 5 and 6 fine so I propose just making a 0.12 
> release (or be bold and call it 1.0).
>
> phonon-gstreamer
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/phonon-gstreamer
> 4.10.0 released in 2019 by Harald.  it has a Qt 6 port by Montel but I've not 
> tried it (in KDE neon).
> https://community.kde.org/Phonon/Releases/GStreamer/4.9.1
> It's not the recommended backend, does anyone still use it?
>

This is still used on Fedora and derivatives.

> kuserfeedback
> Last released 1.2 by me (amazing what one is again)
> Builds Qt 5 by default and 6 with -DQT_MAJOR_VERSION=6
> Distros need both Qt 5 and 6 builds although I think Qt 5 is only for ruqola 
> now so possibly that can be dropped or I can make a final Qt 5 release with a 
> renamed tar.
> It has been requested to add it to frameworks so hopefully that can happen
>

This needs fixing as I tried to build this and the result was
clobbered libraries and broken bindings because the Qt5 and Qt6
versions of the libraries are not fully namespaced.


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