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Re: qTox 1.8.1
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:40 pm
by smaragdus
I couldn't update the
database entry properly because the x64 download link (
https://build.tox.chat/view/qtox/job/qT ... elease.zip) does not fit the box (
Download URL for 64-bit:).
qTox all builds.
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:17 am
by __philippe
Terse workaround :
https://tinyurl.com/ ...
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:29 pm
by billon
@Andrew Lee:
Looks like entries' DL links can't take more than 150 symbols. Can you increase it?
Re: qTox
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:29 pm
by smaragdus
@__philippe
Yes, the workaround you suggested would work but I do not use URL shorteners at this site because I do believe that here all the links should be transparent. Usually I only use URL shorteners with Twitter and when links look absolutely horrible and only when I send stuff to people who know me well and who trust me.
Edit
I am not familiar with
Jenkins but for a layman like me it looks like
a real mess. Perhaps it is that just
qTox uses
Jenkins in a untidy way? Maybe
SYSTEM can throw some light. I am sorry that
qTox developers use the
Releases Page only for the source code. There seems to be
a newer version (
1.9.0) of
qTox but it doesn't seem to be a stable one.
Edit
I tested
uTox (version
0.15.0 released on
2017.04.23), it still cannot be made portable and compared to
Isotoxin and
qTox it looks poor. For me even
Toxygen is better and the developer
has promised that in the next version video calls will be finally supported.
Re: qTox
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:47 pm
by SYSTEM
smaragdus wrote:
I am not familiar with
Jenkins but for a layman like me it looks like
a real mess. Perhaps it is that just
qTox uses
Jenkins in a untidy way? Maybe
SYSTEM can throw some light.
I am familiar with Jenkins, and it's indeed supposed to look like that. Jenkins is intended for developers, not end users.
It is rare for open source projects to host the binaries ("artifacts" in Continuos Integration speak) directly in a CI system like Jenkins. Usually project members download the binaries from the CI and upload them somewhere else (like GitHub releases) where end users can then download them.
QTox developers have set up a redirect to the right URL, which is significantly shorter...
https://qtox-win.pkg.tox.chat/qtox/win3 ... d-portable
...but it hasn't been updated for 1.9.0.
smaragdus wrote:
I am sorry that
qTox developers use the
Releases Page only for the source code. There seems to be
a newer version (
1.9.0) of
qTox but it doesn't seem to be a stable one.
From what I can tell, 1.9.0 is stable since it's mentioned in GitHub releases.
Re: qTox
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:08 pm
by smaragdus
@SYSTEM
Thanks for the information you provided about Jenkins.
Updating the
database entry of
qTox is a pain. I downloaded from the stable branch the binaries (
x86 &
x86-64), the installers (
x86 &
x86-64) and ran the four of them- they are all version
1.8.1-
version files also show the same version number. However the
change log does not mention version
1.8.1 at all. All download links from the
GitHub page point at version
1.8.1 and more- the download link for the
x32 archive version results in
HTTP ERROR 404. There is one major difference between the installer versions and the archive versions- "
qtox-updater.exe" is not included in the latter and it is which shows that the latest version is
1.9.0, which is not available in the stable branch. For me this is a real mess. Trying to follow the
qTox updates is cumbersome.
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:51 pm
by jtr8
You can grab the 1.9.0 version
here. Just download the
nightly one.
I tested uTox (version 0.15.0 released on 2017.04.23), it still cannot be made portable
Start uTox as follows:
Re: qTox/uTox
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 9:43 am
by smaragdus
@jtr8
jtr8 wrote:You can grab the 1.9.0 version
here. Just download the
nightly one.
I tested uTox (version 0.15.0 released on 2017.04.23), it still cannot be made portable
Start uTox as follows:
First, welcome to the forum.
Is version
1.9.0 nightly or stable?
Thank you for the start parameter you provided- I confirm that it works- settings saved in
tox_save.tox and
utox_save files inside
Tox sub-folder in program folder. Before I tested
uTox I searched both its
website and its
GitHub page but I didn't find any information how to run
uTox in portable mode.
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:11 am
by jtr8
@ smaragdus
Well, it seems by the looks of it that the 1.9 version has been released as stable on Linux only. The Windows version is beeing updated as Nightlies though.
It is serving me very well if you ask me. Just give it a whirl
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 8:34 pm
by Andrew Lee
billon wrote:@Andrew Lee:
Looks like entries' DL links can't take more than 150 symbols. Can you increase it?
Done! Increased to 200.
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Sun May 07, 2017 12:51 am
by jtr8
qTox version 1.9 has gone stable, you can get it
here.
Re: Tox specification
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:25 pm
by smaragdus
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:20 pm
by webfork
So the entry downloads appear to be offline (thanks
billon). I've added a note to the entry.
Also:
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/issues/4916
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 7:38 pm
by webfork
The latest version was released a few days ago but I'm not seeing a portable (ZIP) version.
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/releases/tag/v1.17.2
EDIT: looks like they moved that to the installation: qTox supports portable mode, which can be enabled in advanced settings. Portable mode saves & loads profile & settings from the working directory, i.e. from where qTox has been launched.
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/wiki/Profile
I'll try to update the entry in the days ahead.
Re: qTox - secure instant messaging
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:53 am
by webfork
webfork wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 7:38 pm
I'll try to update the entry in the days ahead.
I tried a few ways to do the install process, but settled on a uniextract step, which gets around an admin requirement.