Hi! Here's a short update on current progress towards a KF6 (aka KDE 6) based release of RKWard, and a call to start testing.
As a bit of background, the transition from KF5 to KF6 is complicated by the fact, that some Linux distributions do not ship KF6 libraries, yet, and may not have them in their stable releases for a long time, while other distributions are already shipping some of our dependencies (importantly, kate) in a KF6-only version. To address this, I worked on getting out AppImage builds to a state that is (as far a I know) ready for productive use. Importantly, the AppImages can now be used with a full featured R installation on the host system. Of course, we plan on having Ubuntu daily builds, again, too, once backported KF6-libraries are available. AppImage packages - as well as Windows and Mac builds - are available from https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/education/rkward/master/ . Note that these packages are generated, automatically, straight from the development sources, and individual builds have not undergone human testing. That said, no major problems are currently expected on Linux and Windows, and we'll need your help to detect an address remaining issues! Unfortunately, on MacOS, the situation is currently more dire. While packages exist, these have not been tested at all. Since a number of large changes have been done to platform-dependent code regarding the startup procedure, there is a fairly high probability that these build will quite simply fail to start at all (but no major issues are expected once that difficulty is overcome). The problem is quite simply that we do not have the hardware for testing and fixing these builds. *If you own a Mac, we want your help!* The first step will be to download and (try to) run the .dmg, and report, what you see. Based on that, and depending on how much time you're will to invest, I'll be going to ask you for more info for diagnostics. Thanks! Regards Thomas
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