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<font face="FreeSerif">As anyone has seen today who gets
issue/source updates from github, I'm doing a few cleanup things
toward the goal of a release.<br>
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Yes, I've been gone an indecent amount of time again. Regrets and
apologies. No, Xiphos has not <i>quite</i> been abandonware, but
admittedly it's been close. A couple folks' activities have driven
me out of my darkened hovel.<br>
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At this time, I need some assistance on a couple of things. Much
of the github CI/travis/whatever machinery has always been a
mystery to me, others have handled it before, and I'm feeling out
of touch.<br>
<br>
First, there are 3 open (ancient) PRs and I am trying to determine
whether they're relevant.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/1007">https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/1007</a><br>
updates USE_GTK_3 to use GTK_CHECKVERSION(3,0,0).<br>
Fine idea. Seems incomplete. There are a number of instances of
USE_GTK_3 not covered by the change. I can always merge it, then
do another update referencing it with the remainder, that would be
fine. But comments mention that CI is not functional because of
repo perms to allow the .com name. I don't know where this is
done. Clues for the clueless would be welcome.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/1103">https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/1103</a><br>
adds dbus stanza to src/main/CMakeLists.txt<br>
Seems fine on its face, but comment is that dbus fails on Nix, yet
I've never seen a failure of this anywhere. Needed? Critical?
Ignorable?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/972">https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/pull/972</a><br>
appears to annihilate GTK2 usage entirely. Sorry, so long as we
support Windows build, where we lack adequate GTK3 support (much
less GTK4), we are stuck with #ifdef-preserving GTK2 interfaces.<br>
Am I right about this? Is there better GTK3/4 for Windows?<br>
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Other updates already done:<br>
- Basic copyright update<br>
- Live chat reference update from freenode to libera<br>
- WebKit regression workaround using environment variable, since
WK people are not fixing that problem.<br>
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A main driving reason for all this at this time is that
webkit2gtk-4.0 is about to go defunct in favor of webkit2gtk-4.1.
This will cause trouble as e.g. Fedora 40 and other distros firm
up. So updates were merged recently which move us away from 4.0 +
soup2 to 4.1 + soup3.<br>
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In the CI/travis world, auto-builds are always failing. This
hasn't concerned me much up to now but if I'm going to make a
release, that stuff ought to run. Aaron Rainbolt made a comment at
some point that this is due to a mis-expectation of building in a
git tree which ¿is not the case when CI/travis is operating?.
Again, I need clues for how to address this.<br>
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