With Evaluation binaries for new XPCE+SDL based GUI the preview/evaluation is launched.
If this lands fairly well, I’d like to replace the old xpce and Qt console ASAP. Next steps will be to consolidate this and after that start a new stable/devel release cycle.
Besides improving this initial version there is a serious issue wrt. notably Linux distributions. Only a few distros already support SDL3. Almost all support SDL2. Unlike some indications I got before though, there seems to be no reasonable way to run the SDL3 code on SDL2 systems. This means we have various options
- Build SDL3 and SDL3_image from source to satisfy the dependency. It seems these packages can be compiled happily on most systems. Including the sources into the source distribution seems unreasonable though. What are the implications for the distro package managers?
- Ditch support for the IDE tools and app for older versions. They can still use the flatpak version for that.
- For some time provide two source tar-balls, one providing the old xpce and one the new version. Seems doable, but rather confusing.
- … Ideas?
If we can continue this, the plan is also to
- Ditch the GNU readline interface package. The two commandline editors are mostly confusing IMO.
- Ditch the Qt version of the GUI app.
Comments and deas are welcome.