v5.4.0

[jcelerier]

• ALSA: observation will now slightly be delayed as otherwise udev fields are sometimes not populated yet.
• Port the Android backend from RtMidi, developed by @YellowLabrador.
• C++: add initial C++ modules support: import libremidi;. So far compilers other than Clang 20+ crash. Enable with -DLIBREMIDI_LIBRARY_MODE=MODULE. Note that one cannot mix a module-based and a non-module based API. An example is provided in examples/modules.cpp
• Add a utility libremidi::set_client_name / client_name function to simplify construction of an API object with a custom client name.
• Many improvements to MIDI 1 <-> MIDI 2 conversion, every MIDI 1 message is supported now.
• Port information: add as much metadata as we can get from the host API.
• Port information: remove sorting and comparison as there's no generally correct way to compare two port_information / input_port / output_port objects. Multiple ways of doing this comparison depending on the use case have been provided as examples in <libremidi/port_comparison.hpp>.
• Port information: added a heuristics-based libremidi::find_closest_port(query, existing_ports) utility function which tries to lookup the most likely candidate for a MIDI port across backends with the lookup information that can be provided.
• Python: add a pyproject.toml to facilitate integration with the Python ecosystem. Thanks @TheStaticTurtle!
• Windows MIDI Services: support updated to the RC1 release headers.
• Windows MIDI Services: add support for the newly introduced COM fast-path to provide maximum performance.

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This discussion was created from the release v5.4.0.