Re: Testing required: pgAdmin 4 with new desktop runtime

Hi

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 16:01, richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Sounds promising, can the new beta be installed alongside the existing
> version?
>

Only on macOS, due to the way appbundles work.

> Thanks,
>
> rik.
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> As you know, when run in Desktop mode, pgAdmin 4 uses a server process
>> which runs all the time and opens a browser window to display the UI. Very
>> early versions used a Qt based runtime that integrated the browser and
>> server which gave a much more "normal" application feel, but unfortunately
>> we found that the Qt browser components had performance issues.
>>
>> We've been working on a new runtime (based on NWjs, similar to Electron)
>> to allow us to get rid of the separate server process, and I'm please to
>> offer builds for testing at:
>>
>> https://developer.pgadmin.org/builds/nwjs-2021-01-21-1/
>>
>> There you'll find an installer for 64 bit Windows, a DMG for macOS, and
>> RPM and DEB packages for Fedora 31, 32 & 33, RHEL/CentOS 7 & 8, Debian 9,
>> 10 & 11 and Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 20.10.
>>
>> These builds are based on development code currently in git that will be
>> released as v4.30 next week. This includes phase 1 of our Kerberos support
>> (for logging into pgAdmin, but *not* the database servers), and the new ERD
>> tool. This code is still going through QA and final improvement, so please
>> bear that in mind.
>>
>> We're aiming to release v5.0 of pgAdmin 4 in late February, based on the
>> new runtime, so would appreciate as much help and feedback as we can get
>> prior to the release.
>>
>> Whilst I'm writing, I'd also like to give an update on platform support
>> changes;
>>
>> - As previously noted in release announcements, Windows 32 bit builds are
>> deprecated. v4.29 will be the last 32 bit Windows build supported.
>>
>> - Canonical have dropped support for Ubuntu 19.10, and now removed all of
>> the packages repositories. We have therefore had to drop support for it as
>> well; the last supported version of pgAdmin on Ubuntu 19.10 will be v4.29.
>>
>> - Due to the age of the Python version it ships with, we've had to stop
>> producing builds for Ubuntu 16.04 (some of the security related Python
>> modules are no longer supported on older Python versions). v4.30 will be
>> the last version supported on Ubuntu 16.04.
>>
>> - Builds for Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 11 (Bullseye/testing) have been
>> added for the v4.30 release onwards.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
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>>
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>>
>> --
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