Re: Small summer status overview + request for some opinions

2024-06-29 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Tuomas, Thanks again for the nice effort. I think Sven already covered the "donours" tab. So, about contributor, I give my humble opinion. I think it's a bit pointless to keep it the software a list of contributors. It's either outdated, or too long. I personally prefer to have

Re: Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released!

2024-05-03 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Thanks Tuomas for the effort to bring Amarok back to life The work has already been noticed: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/05/03/0020208/back-from-the-dead-amarok-30-music-player-released On 2024-04-29 22:15, Tuomas Nurmi wrote: Hi everyone, I am happy to announce the immediate

Re: Planning an alpha2 (2.9.76)

2024-04-04 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
As far as I remember, the page was latest updated by Myriam Schweingruber On 2024-04-03 11:22, Tuomas Nurmi wrote: Hi everyone, as things are coming together quite nicely, I'd like to ask if anyone has any comments on the idea of a next release, which could be alpha2 at this point. There are

Re: Amarok - hunting for a boost

2024-03-30 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Welcome Tuomas. Thanks for you you energy to give a new boost to Amarok. Here are some  thoughts, as I spent quite some time trying to make the first QT5 port: - the hardest thing to port from QT4 to QT5 were the plugins, as they were based on QTScript. I even tried to recreate it the script

Re: New attempt of an Alpha release

2021-02-09 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
e: On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 22:44, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes mailto:pedrogome...@gmail.com>> wrote: Great, thanks Myriam.  Let us know as soon as you publish, so I can write to the announcement mailing lists I just hit the Publish button now :-) Regards, Myriam -- Pron

Re: New attempt of an Alpha release

2021-02-08 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Great, thanks Myriam.  Let us know as soon as you publish, so I can write to the announcement mailing lists On 2021-02-06 14:05, Myriam Schweingruber wrote: Sorry for being a bit slow these days, RL getting in the way... I rephrased it to the following: - Amarok now depends on MariaDB

Re: New attempt of an Alpha release

2021-02-04 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Thanks Myriam and Heiko! Here are few comments: * About the DB, I suggest the following text: "Mysql embedded has been discontinued, so will be MariaDB embedded in a near future. So the upcoming 3.0 version will see a port to a new DB backend;" * the new scripting engine does not use QML at

Re: New attempt of an Alpha release

2021-01-31 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
it yourself put at least the tarball on the download server (and save you the sysadmin ticket). Best regards, Heiko On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:40:52 CET, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote: Hi all, After long delay, finally I guess I will have the time to try to release the first Alpha of the KF5

New attempt of an Alpha release

2021-01-27 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, After long delay, finally I guess I will have the time to try to release the first Alpha of the KF5 port. Surely there are many bugs and things to polish. But apart from that, let me know if you have any concerns or comments. Cheers, Pedro

Re: To forked projects from Amarok

2020-12-22 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Sylvain, Thanks for the nice words. We're are trying to make Amarok have a new release after more than two years. Still the development has been slow, given the short number of contributors, and that people contribute by their own possibilities. Clementine and Strawberry are nice

Alternative lyrics database

2020-12-14 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, lyrics.wikia.com (which was redirected to lyrics.fandom.com) has been shut down. Any suggestions about a replacement? Preferably with a decent API and which is open. Pedro

Re: Code contributions - what's the process?

2020-12-12 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Ben, Sure, I can merge Tuomas' changes till he's able to. I just did the first (Heiko did the other one). Cheers, Pedro On 2020-12-12 07:24, Ben Cooksley wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, 10:37 pm Pedro de Carvalho Gomes, mailto:pedrogome...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Tuomas, Hi

Re: Code contributions - what's the process?

2020-12-10 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Tuomas, Dan is sort of correct in his reply. The development has been very slow the last years. As you may see, it has been 2.5 years since the last release. About one year ago I have started to send contributions, to try to help Amarok to get going. It's in my plans to release a new alpha

Re: [KDE/amarok] Replace qtscript with qt qml (#10)

2020-09-21 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Myrian, I deeply apologize. But as I have told you before, I am not directly creating these PR to the official Amarok mirror at Github. I can see that these are triggered when I push to my personal repo, but I couldn't identify more than this yet. I'll send more time investigating this,

Re: Amarok scripting port to QJSEngine concluded

2020-07-21 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
if no response for more than X weeks. Regards, Pedro Den 2020-06-24 kl. 11:34, skrev Pedro de Carvalho Gomes: Hi all, I have concluded the port from QTScript, which is deprecated, to QJSEngine. I tried to mimic the old script behavior as close as possible, and I think I mostly succeeded. Few

Amarok scripting port to QJSEngine concluded

2020-06-24 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, I have concluded the port from QTScript, which is deprecated, to QJSEngine. I tried to mimic the old script behavior as close as possible, and I think I mostly succeeded. Few things couldn't be ported yet. Here are the most important ones: - QJSEngine doesn't have a script debugger

Re: Replacement of QTScript continues

2020-06-09 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
or the brave ones, the changes are here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/commits/replace_Qtscript_with_QtQml Cheers, Pedro On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:20 PM Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote: > > Hi all, > > I write to update about my work on replacing QTScript with QJSEngine. > I

Re: building amarok

2020-06-05 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Robert, First of all, mysql deprecated its embedded library after version 5.7. This means that Amarok no longer can compile against newer versions. The alternative is MariaDB, which still has an equivalent to Mysql-embedded. So, please install all mariadb dependencies, especially the devel

Replacement of QTScript continues

2020-06-05 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, I write to update about my work on replacing QTScript with QJSEngine. I have just pushed to the branch a substantial change, which includes: - fully functional Script console with JS console logging - loading of old scripts (though with errors, depending on what's used) If you have the

First version of script with QJSEngine available

2020-05-18 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, I have just pushed the first compiling version of the port from QScriptEngine to QJSEngine. The branch is available at: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/tree/replace_Qtscript_with_QtQml As I mentioned, it's the first compiling version. Still there are several missing features,

Re: Move to gitlab?

2020-05-08 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
I have already dropped Phabricator and the old repo in favor of Gitlab. I guess most of active people did the same since I see Pull requests being created at Gitlab On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:20 AM Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 11:18, Heiko Becker wrote: >> >>

Re: New release

2020-05-05 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
help me with that, and we'll be able to have a first Alpha this weekend. What do you say? Cheers, Pedro On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:13 PM Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 23:38, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes > wrote: >> >> Hi Heiko and ot

Re: New release

2020-05-01 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
n Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:04 AM Heiko Becker wrote: > > Hey Pedro and all, > > On Sonntag, 12. April 2020 09:51:33 CEST, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote: > > I think the main reason for the delay of a new version is now > > concluded (or at least in a decent state), which was th

Re: trying to build amarok git master against ubuntu eoan

2020-04-29 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi, I have created the attached Dockerfile that builds for Eoan. Use it as a reference to build your own Amarok with Mariadb Embedded replacing Mysql Embedded (which is no longer supported). As an alternative, I have been creating my own packages at Lauchpad. Here's my PPA:

Re: New release

2020-04-18 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Jonathan, I have just fixed the issue with Mariadb 10.1 and now it compiles fine at Ubuntu 18.4 LTS. The attached docker file for Neon in case you have trouble. Regards, Pedro On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:37 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Oh yes I didn't realise libmaridadb actually just

Re: New release

2020-04-15 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
, but it work that stays longer. I volunteer to help you with that. Do you have ideas on how we can share the task? Regards, Pedro On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:04 AM Heiko Becker wrote: > > Hey Pedro and all, > > On Sonntag, 12. April 2020 09:51:33 CEST, Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote: > >

Re: Move to gitlab?

2020-04-14 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Heiko, Thank you and the sysadmins for the move to Gitlab. Is the plan to continue with Phabricator for code review, or will this be moved to Gitlab? Regards, Pedro On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:53 PM Heiko Becker wrote: > > Hello, > > having asked multiple people for their email addresses

New release

2020-04-12 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi all, I think the main reason for the delay of a new version is now concluded (or at least in a decent state), which was the port to KF5. There's also one major issue, which is the deprecation of mysql embedded. I went after Mariadb's plans for the embedded library. I couldn't find any mention

Crash with QSharePointer

2020-03-16 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi, I have finished the porting of Last.fm service to Kf5. However I have been having a crash which I can't identify the cause. At the end of LastServer destructor, controller->unregisterScrobblingService() is invoked. The parameter is a QSharedPointer, which encapsulates the ScrobbleAdapter

Re: SQLite Pilot V1

2020-03-09 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
LUDE_DIR=/usr/include/mariadb ../../src/amarok/ > > cmake --build . > > make install > > amarok runs, I can add my music and play from a random playlist. Have not > done any extesnive testing, but think you have found a solution for > installation for (U/Ku)bunto without th

Re: SQLite Pilot V1

2020-02-27 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi, Is this branch available somewhere? I may take a lot and help you with that. About the (K)Ubuntu 19+: indeed it comes with Mysql 8, which no longer supports Mysql Embedded. Still Ubuntu 19.10 provides MariaDB 10.3 as alternative, which has a compatible library (libmariadbd) that works

Re: embedded MySql alternatives

2020-01-09 Thread Pedro de Carvalho Gomes
Hi Myriam, What about deprecating Mysql embedded, and supporting MariaDB instead? It seems the natural path since it still has libmysqld. Regards, Pedro On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 4:31 PM Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > Hi Leo, > > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 10:11, subscription1 > wrote: > >> Given