Hi, long time no release. But at last here it is.
There are many, many small changes and fixes donated by a bunch of users. Thank you for that. Your help is much appreciated. Especially as you might have noticed that my time budget for QMapShack is currently very small. The by far largest change is switching from QT5 to QT6. The minimum version is now QT6.8. I know this is pretty new for some distributions. But I somehow try to get out of QT's self inducted deprecation hell. Some deprecation warnings only last a few minor QT versions until they get removed. And spamming the code with loads of QT version defines if defs is nothing I want to have. Therefore QT6.8. it is for now. Another big change is switching from our own implementation of decoding FIT files to the library Garmin provides. The benefit is to reduce maintenance load. As a drawback the new FIT file project implementation behaves a bit different than the old one. But we have tested quite a lot with a variety of files from different GPS devices. The overall result should be fine. And talking of devices. My old trusty GPSMap64 starts to get rubber bubbles. Garmin and rubber - always have been a dream team. Anyway I own a GPSMap67 now. And this is MTP only. Yeah, MTP! The USB protocol to connect devices with the worst support in Linux. It's a dream. But I managed to integrate it via DBus hopefully the most unfriendly way. There is a DBus interface for GVFS that should apply to most GTK based distributions. And there is KDE using it's own way. QMapShack supports both. I hope there is no 3rd DBus interface. With MTP supported all other devices that use MTP get into focus. For example devices from Wahoo. Or your smartphone. To detect these devices as GPS device you need to place a small JSON file in the root of the file system. This JSON serves the same purpose as the GarminDevice.xml. It defines where to find GPS recordings and where to place planned tracks or routes. This should be very flexible to address all kind of applications on mobile platforms. For details please refer to the Wiki https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki/DocGisDevices The release is source code only. As far as I know, no one takes care of OSX or Windows binaries. Therefore if you feel like you want binaries, get your hands dirty. Fork the repository. Build the binaries. Release the binaries in your fork. Tell me that you do and I add a link to the release note. Enjoy the release Oliver _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
