Yep,

After a wholelotta years, decades to be precise, in deep uber-procrastination, it's now being promoted into a real thought...

Cheers ;-)

It's upon us...

The good news are: just completed a successful migration to KDE Plasma 6 on ALL of the boxes in the house: 2 desktops and 3 laptops. No blisters found, hurray!
Huge congratulations to the KDE Team and all the unspoken contributors who made this a whole milestone and a quite smooth transition!

Now for the possible bad news: all upstream (that's me) QStuff* support for anything older than Qt6.0 is going to be scuttled, give or take a week, a month or two.

Moving forward... because, there's no other way ;)

Cheers

Sorry again for the old Latin title... not to be confused to any Azimov's foundational world...

It's there just to tell, as a follow-up and conclusion to an earlier Interruptus:

• The autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.) build system have been dropped, definitively -- CMake is the sole ruler now, for all [Qstuff*] builds and packaging.

Cheers

So sorry for the old Latin title...

But well, this comes only to let you all know of the following:

Starting from and after but not including the very next batch series of the so called Qstuff* releases, which shall happen quite soon, the following two bullet points will be marked as deprecated, now seriously:

On the other news:

Maybe not as compelling as any of those bad old Qstuff* but jack_link has made it to version 0.0.9 ... Yeah, and some weeks ago already, must I tell ya ;)

jack_link is a JACK time-base--and now also a transport--kinda-proof-of-concept bridge to Ableton Link, which already goes into its V3 incarnation.

In a (long, rather boring) sentence, this means that jack_link is now a bilateral bridge--read two-way--to JACK time-base master to Ableton Link local-cloud;) and vice-versa.

The usual caveat emptor rule applies. It may work well--if at all--on some JACK clients and incredibly FUBAR for others (!). To speak the truth, it has been only tested with--and you know what--yours truly Qtractor. And that's what makes me happy :)

Hope it makes you too!

Hello?

Yes it rhymes and it is also an objective sentence!

Yes again, you read that right: Qt4 support will be dropped and ditched into oblivion in the next and coming days!

Qt4 is dead. Yes it is. And please, don't beat a dead (and buried) horse.

Long live Qt5!

Buckle up!

Yep, it is.

All Q-stuff is now set to build on Qt5 by default.

No worry, no hurry, chicken curry :)

cheers

ps. everyone is free and revert to Qt4 nevertheless, just do it by ./configure --enable-qt4 ... at your own risk though;)

pretty slowly...

that is to say we're (gosh! I mean) I am (one has to be honest, ain't we? never mind, I say), moving all our (dang, my) projects source code control to Git.

Yeah, finally. Never is too late, somehow.

And the time is now, or is it?

Anyway, in the meanwhile, the official Subversion (SVN) repositories are moving no matter what,

the old paths,

are from this moment now being migrated to:

and that's it.

Or in some old dead and wrong latin: ego dixit*, whatever ;)

nuff said.

* ps. the ego particle is the wrong one: in (old) latin, verbs don't get pronouns pre-pended, whatever again x)

[UPDATE:] the new respective Git repositories will be from now on referred as follows:

pps. regarding post caption: it's a literal translation to an old saying around here (pt_PT)--many should reckon it vaguely related to old dogs and new tricks ;)