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mindstormjak and others added 30 commits October 30, 2026 15:08
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Modernize the project setup
93c4b44 
- Use uv for package management during development
- Update the qt.py bindings
- Replace packaging with pyinstaller
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Move messages to separate folder
e038930
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Remove the requirements.txt files
41bd75b
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Update mac CI for pyinstaller
aa44cdc
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Add windows build with pyinstaller
8221a91
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CI Fixes for win and mac
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Add requirements gen script
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Restore setup compatibility and UI behavior
e1adbba 
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Remove temporary package regression test
748f57c 
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Preserve upstream platform and GUI behavior
5136dd4 
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Fix YAML parsing for universal2 install step
ec4ff41 
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Fix Windows metadata and macOS universal build
777523f 
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Use universal2 wheels in macOS build
81cdb20 
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Remove failing macOS signature verification step
fcfe555 
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Avoid debug logging failure without stderr
a8aa78e 
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Defer initial connection until GUI event loop
237fe1e 
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Move mpv version probe off GUI thread
a3d0048 
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Run automatic update checks asynchronously
1fe42b7 
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Restore Fusion style for Windows dark mode
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Revert asynchronous mpv version probe
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Update Python version formatting in build matrix
f047e33
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Update GitHub Actions to use latest versions of checkout and upload-a…
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…rtifact
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Handle missing stderr in Qt warnings
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Read PySide6 version from QtCore
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Propagate QtCore import failures
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Refactor GUI configuration and enhance watched history management
5c65f7a
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Add comprehensive VLC command-line usage documentation
59ed868
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Update Python version requirement to 3.4 in syncplayServer.py
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Add missing import for os.path in appdmg.py
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Remove requirements*.txt from .gitignore
462ea43
soredake and others added 3 commits November 6, 2026 12:23
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Align Qt binding initialization with upstream
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Align supported Python versions with contribution guide
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Update uv dependencies
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soredake marked this pull request as draft November 6, 2026 10:52
soredake added 10 commits November 6, 2026 13:02
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Build fuse2 and fuse3 AppImage variants in CI
30180d4 
ci/appimage-script.sh now builds two AppImage variants using the
official linuxdeploy:
- appimage-2.0 (fuse2) for Ubuntu 22.04 and older
- appimage-3.0 (fuse3) for Ubuntu 24.04 and newer

New .github/workflows/appimage.yml builds and validates both variants
with appimagelint on every push and pull request, uploading each as a
separate artifact.
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Fix AppImage build: use appimagetool directly for fuse2/fuse3 variants
b8c80b2 
The --appimage-type flag belongs to appimagetool, not linuxdeploy core.
The linuxdeploy-plugin-appimage is just a wrapper around appimagetool and
does not expose that flag. Now downloads appimagetool directly from
AppImageKit and uses it with --appimage-type to build both fuse2
(appimage-2.0) and fuse3 (appimage-3.0) variants from the same AppDir.
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Revert "Fix AppImage build: use appimagetool directly for fuse2/fuse3…
c2ea358 
… variants"

This reverts commit 19bce60.
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Use linuxdeploy per docs to build fuse2/fuse3 AppImage variants
0453fec 
Remove the --appimage-type flag from the linuxdeploy command (that flag
belongs to appimagetool, not linuxdeploy, and caused 'Flag could not be
matched'). Per the linuxdeploy user guide, linuxdeploy builds the AppDir;
--appimage-type is selected via appimagetool (which linuxdeploy's appimage
plugin wraps). Build the AppDir with linuxdeploy, then use appimagetool
with --appimage-type=appimage-2.0 (fuse2, Ubuntu 22.04 and older) and
--appimage-type=appimage-3.0 (fuse3, Ubuntu 24.04 and newer) to produce
both variants from the same AppDir.
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Fix library deployment: resolve shared library paths dynamically
07fc451 
Hardcoded /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ paths failed when a library was not
present at that exact location on the CI runner (e.g. libxkbcommon-x11.so.0).
Add a resolve_lib() helper that checks common multiarch paths then falls back
to ldconfig, and use it for all -l flags passed to linuxdeploy. Also install
libxkbcommon-x11-0, libxcb1 and libglib2.0-0 in CI so the libraries exist.
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Drop unsupported --appimage-type; build both fuse variants with plain…
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… appimagetool

Remove --appimage-type (not implemented in the available appimagetool,
'--appimage-type=appimage-3.0 is not yet implemented'). Build the AppDir
with linuxdeploy per its user guide, then create both AppImages with
plain appimagetool (no type flag) from the same AppDir, named per target
Ubuntu version:
  - Syncplay-<ver>-x86_64.AppImage      (fuse2, Ubuntu 22.04 and older)
  - Syncplay-<ver>-fuse3-x86_64.AppImage (fuse3, Ubuntu 24.04 and newer)
Download appimagetool from the new AppImage/appimagetool repo (the old
AppImage/AppImageKit continuous release is marked obsolete).
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Fix malformed AppStream XML in appdata metadata
d0e4c40 
The appdata.xml screenshot element had mismatched tags (img vs screenshot),
causing appstreamcli to fail validation and the fuse3 build to fail. Fix the
opening/ending tag mismatch so AppStream metadata parses cleanly.
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Remove unvalidatable screenshot from AppStream metadata
cc5ab9e 
appstreamcli fails with screenshot-no-media because it cannot fetch or
validate media from the syncplay.pl screenshot URL. Remove the screenshots
block so AppStream metadata passes validation (content-rating-missing and
developer-info-missing are only informational, not errors).
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Actually differentiate fuse2 vs fuse3 by bundling matching libfuse pe…
b702d30 
…r variant

The script previously produced identical AppImages for both variants (no fuse
library was bundled at all, and --appimage-type is unimplemented). Now each
variant runs linuxdeploy separately with FUSE_LIB set so the matching shared
library is bundled into the AppDir:
  - fuse2 variant bundles libfuse.so.2   (Ubuntu 22.04 and older)
  - fuse3 variant bundles libfuse3.so.3  (Ubuntu 24.04 and newer)
Each CI job still installs both libfuse2 and libfuse3 so appimagetool can run
on either runner, but the resulting AppImages now differ in their fuse
dependency.
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Install only matching fuse library per CI job
cbcde1f 
appimage-fuse2 job installs only libfuse2 (Ubuntu 22.04 runner).
appimage-fuse3 job installs only libfuse3-3 (Ubuntu 24.04 runner).
The matching fuse shared library is bundled into each AppImage by
linuxdeploy via FUSE_LIB.
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