2021-01-24¶

Members present: James S, Marcin

Free-form discussion. Topics:

• Update on running tests on GH Actions

  • Marcin made some progress, but it still doesn’t work

• Marcin built SC natively on an M1 MBP

  • homebrew provides Qt 5.15.2, but without qtwebengine

  • there were issues with (self)-signing - the build did not start, everyneed needed to be re-signed

  • performance seems quite good (non-scientifically measured)

  • James and Marcin wondered whether we use all ARM optimizaions; nova-simd library seems to include NEON instructions

• discussion on QtWebEngine

  • still not available in Qt6

  • ideas for having help system without web engine, e.g. by using rich text in Qt text view

• ideas about version numbers for non-tagged builds

  • proposition: name current pre-release 3.12.0-pre (or similar)

  • proposition: name future pre-release 3.13.0-pre (from develop branch, with the caveat that 3.13 release might not include all changes)

  • discussion on version numbers vs short sha (e.g. 3.12.0-pre-1454 vs 3.12.0-pro-1c002dd)

• James proposes using Unity Builds to speed up build process