luajit download server to tarballs stopped to work, which is expected,
since it was advised by the team in https://luajit.org/download.html:
"Please do not use obsolete versions from older tarballs or zip files.
Please remove any outdated links to these downloads — these links will
cease to work soon."
We also will not use the official git server since it does not support
all git clone features, which makes flatpak-builder cloning stage fail.
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Regarding lua-lgi, we will not use the latest commit since seems that
our goat exercises or gobject-introspection or lua-lgi iteself is broken
since lua-lgi commit: 3f47eb57ef5a84be878ce33c15b7ff037059b08d
Some parts of the README got obscured or dated with time. Let's improve them:
- Remove redundant text about keeping GIMP buildable (it's already said on
Cod. Style and Dev rights pages on gimp-web-devel, and not flatpak specific)
- Remove text about 1-hour timeout which isn't true according to my tests,
specially after the improvements of splitted jobs and updated build options
- Reorder Anitya text to before "module dropping" text, it's linear this way
("module dropping" by checking runtime is last step of module cycle of life)
- Remove very confusing "flatpak run... gimp" line which was breaking the
explanation flow about "module dropping" and it's not too useful since the
manifest (which is only a bit different) can be acessed in-source with tags
- Changed title from "Mantaining the manifest" to "Mantaining the modules"
- Added not so clear "Versioning the flatpak" to separate it from other modules
text. The title is not perfect, but at least make a needed pause on reading
Ported from: 37b173e3a9
and ac0069eb20
The reason for this change is because part of our API (babl, gegl and
gimp headers) directly links to gexiv2 then exiv2 headers so these two
should be provided, even if they aren't on babl/gegl/gimp namespaces.
This change is useful to beta. But, despite we not using extensions on
GIMP nightly to need these headers, doesn't hurt syncing this change.
Indeed, this commit clarify "why" we aren't cleaning these headers.
Ported from: 3772514155
Just to note, ALL the previous "Sync with..." commits were tested in flathub
and gnome-nightly flatpaks, and this actual one (and future ones will be) too.
This is the pendant commit to the one I'm going to commit on the beta
branch for RC1. There in fact was a way to always use the
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME folder, unconditionally (and prevent the weird
inconsistencies of having config folder in .var for some flatpak
installations and in XDG folder for others).
See: https://github.com/flathub/org.gimp.GIMP/pull/287
It's perfectly reasonable that someone can misunderstand the scripts info in
gimp-web-devel and try to run them not from git root but from their dirs. So,
let's add that possibility as a fallback (a pretty natural one by the way).
Also, change the error message to direct contributors to gimp-web-devel.
Ported from ca5688bf6d
Just to note, we are already not using Assembly code
in 10bit and 12bit libraries. So, no feature dropped.
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Also, little fixes to some dev docs regarding Clang.
The ARTIFACTS_SUFFIX is being dropped on building scripts because:
1) This will make possible to further simplify Installer scripts in other commit
2) There is no script that uses multi-arch _build/_install at same time on CI
However, there are two use cases: to build Debian and flatpak; and, on Win,
to build on CLANGARM64 and CLANG64 (?). But probably they are pretty niche.
I suppose that people who build on Debian (or other dev-oriented distro)
willn't want to mantain deps in two sys prefixes (pkg and GNOME runtime)
+ two gimp prefixes (out of sandbox and sandbox) due to huge storage use.
Why someone would want to build with emulation on Win ARM64 I don't know.
Anyway, people that know how to do this stuff probably can change the .sh.
3) When building locally, the contributor doesn't need to know the arch at all.
Indeed, without this suffix, the scripts are inline with gimp-web-devel and
prevent some first-sight confusion when reading them that I've seen on IRC.
4) These arch suffixes can be understood as '_install-*' being distributable
which is not true. So, without this suffix we could make more clear
what is a package (when GitLab fix the glob bug in 'expose_as' someday).
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Despite .gitlab-ci.yml not being a script, it needed to be touched too
because cross scripts depends on Debian jobs due to gimp-data MR.
The numbering is now inline with actual the order of jobs on CI
to make easier to understand what the numbers represent.
To understand why bundling is number 2 see: d09a2a6f and 2dc6f411
The storing of Windows scripts was changed to make easier to
call them, to better convey that they work outside CI and
to be consistent with other build/ subdirectories.
- Dependencies not present in GNOME runtime are now built in deps stage
This makes easier to follow the progress of the overall pipeline and
to know how much time was spent on each stage
(like crossbuilds, the artifact size is brutal but only lasts 2 hours)
- babl and GEGL build now have output in GitLab runner, unlike others deps
This makes clearer to spot if something goes wrong in these crucial deps
- GIMP is still built in its stage but now alone, like Debian and Windows
This makes possible to retrigger only this job when runner errors occours,
without needing to start monolithically the deps+gimp build from scratch
Also:
- babl, GEGL and GIMP now have meson-log.txt artifact like other builds
- dist job now have all commands self-contained on its script (needs to
be merged to be tested according to my tests)
See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/merge_requests/1670#note_2152565
This makes the NIGHTLY flatpak use the local GIMP source. This reduces the
internet usage and makes possible to generate .flatpak from every branch out
there, which turns the flatpak finally really useful to code development.
Of course, this makes impossible to run 'flatpak-builder NIGHTLY_manifest.json'
without cloning or downloading GIMP code, but this is not a regression since:
1) the NIGHTLY manifest is in-source to begin with, so same thing as our other
building methods (except macOS), which runs over the code they are stored
2) the chances of someone downloading partial source code (the NIGHTLY manifest
alone) so being unable to build are low since this file isn't too easy to find
3) even if someone do this and don't like, we are not violating flatpak building
pratices since this option exists to be used (and will be in NIGHTLY only)
Despite we not building gimp nightly on aarch64 we need to sync with beta.
So, this updates to LLVM/Clang 18, which fixes 'gexiv2' and 'poppler'
problems with deps on that arch. 'json-c' and 'luajit' were adjusted too
with the use of proper build options to fix errors.
Temporarily drops 'cfitsio' which started weeks ago to change its hash.
In my tests, after "fixing" the hash, sometimes it alternates to another,
which breaks the build again. This is too hard to maintain and unsafe(?).
The move to Clang in 85ed2847 didn't take into account caching,
Now, this is fixed or, better saying, reintroduced(?): e545116b
Also, flatpak-builder output was confined to the .log file to make
possible checking the end of the CI output, which was being cut.
AppImage is pretty fast to make, like the win crossbuild; and portable,
being very appropriate to do quick tests on Linux when pushing to git.
The overall organization of Debian jobs was changed to take advantage
of this and make things less complicated (but less clear at first sight).
I reinforce that this was the most efficent way to make the AppImage.
