In the past we allowed a lot of leeway when referring to our
web-interface to the Lumiera Git repositories (git.lumiera.org/gitweb)
Unfortunately this caused the AI scraper bots »out there« to capture
millions of URLs for all the different flavours of spelling them out.
And now they haunt our website and try to scrap that content again and again;
even while we effectively prevent that kind of abuse, rejecting those
ongoing attempts at content-scraping causes a dangerously high amount of traffic.
With this changeset, all cross references in the documentation section
are rewritten to the only remaining valid form of that Gitweb URL.
- comb through the Website, starting at the frontpage
- add a **news** entry to confirm this major upgrade step (C++23)
- improve the wording in various overview pages
- adapt the ''release checklist'' to align it with **git-flow**
- reorganise the image folder(s) on the website
- the animated beating heart is back ;-)
Many versions enforced with this changeset are chosen such
as to support Ubuntu/Noble (24.04) and otherwise use versions
reasonably close to Debian-Trixie (≙reference-platform)
Since we now require a fairly modern compiler for C++23,
I have added now an explicit version check, which however
is performed only if the defined compiler is named `g++*`
Furthermore, I combed through all of our build tutorials and documentation pages
and updated a lot of information regarding dependencies and build practices...
...and split-out the description of preview-releases,
since that rather belongs into some kind of changelog (NEWS).
Furthermore, check the links to the build dependencies
Since C++17 we can use the std::filesystem instead (and we ''do use it'' indeed)
- relocate the `/lib/file.hpp` header
- adapt the self-discovery of the executable to using std::filesystem
Furthermore, some recherche regarding XVideo and Video Output
- most notably the NOBUG logging flags have been renamed now
- but for the configuration, I'll stick to "GUI" for now,
since "Stage" would be bewildering for an occasional user
- in a similar vein, most documentation continues to refer to the GUI
this is a bit trickty, since we need to install gcc-4.9 from a PPA.
Mint only provides the libstdc++ 4.8, which is known to break when
compiling in C++14 mode
This means we have rather tight compiler requirements now.
Beyond that, we expect no serious impact; the most notable
C++14 feature we're likely to use soon is type inference
on lambda arguments.
