On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Jared Meidal wrote:
I'm working in a multiplatform environment. If you need any help with Mac OS testing (10.9, 10.6), I would be happy to help with beta testing.I love seeing native build screenshots and the Mac OS theme integrated.--Jared-----Original Message-----Message: 6Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:58:37 -0700From: Alex Buchanan <buchanae@...400...>Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape native OSX buildsTo: su_v <suv-sf@...58...>Cc: Inkscape <inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>Message-ID:<CA+rZ+czbmvRu+oHf_JKWu=7Ttn05OJ51SskuoD-=-Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"In my experience, it's a bad idea to pile on a bunch of complex changes atthe last minute. It sounds like 0.48.5 is ready to go, and Mac OSX stuff isstill in development. Better to take your time and make sure it's a qualityrelease. As Adam mentioned, you can still announce that Mac integration isimportant and under development and start recruiting beta testers.On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:05 PM, su_v <suv-sf@...58...> wrote:On 2014-04-15 19:37 +0100, Krzysztof Kosi?ski wrote:2014-04-15 19:34 GMT+02:00 su_v <suv-sf@...58...>:On 2014-04-15 18:53 +0100, Krzysztof Kosi?ski wrote:2014-04-15 16:04 GMT+02:00 Adam Strzelecki <ono@...3108.....>:Hello,I was doing some fixing to OSX builds back in 2008. Now I came backto see whazzup (since Inkscape is best SVG editor around) and had a chatwith Valerio (su_v) yesterday.Basically his builds are great improvement to what is there both intrunk (OSX builds scripts) and X11 based builds experience.Therefore I strongly encourage Inkscape maintainers to incorporatehis patches into Inkscape trunk and finally provide native OSX builds.OK, I can merge these branches, though I can't test them as I have noaccess to OSX.I note that suv's branch contains some extra extensions in thepackaging directory. Is this intended? Why are they not in the globalextension directory?Please note: current state of the branch is 'experimental', and I didn'trequest a merge at this stage yet.I would really like to get 0.48.5 out of the door this week (e.g. geta tarball uploaded).Should I just release it as is, or wait for further OSX improvements?Don't know, either (neither option seems really ok). [0]1) Current packaging scripts in trunk and in the stable release branchdon't work to quickly produce a new X11-based package of 0.48.5. [1]2) Creating new packages with GTK+/Quartz and better OS integrationrequires changes in 'src' which need to be reviewed, fixed, or written(some are missing at the moment). [2]3) A possible compromise for 0.48.5 (native backend, but no OSintegration) might be doable, but would also take time. [3]IIRC - for the stable release branch, after the long delays which hadoccurred in the past, it was decided to not delay a new release itself,even if packages for some of the supported platforms are still missing.How to handle this if creating the missing packages would requirechanges to the released sources, I don't know.Regards, V[0] I would not want to be the one who calls for or causes a furtherdelay, OTOH if there's another release without OS X packages, this willfurther hurt Inkscape's image among Mac users.[1] The application launcher which in this case needs to be a binary nolonger compiles (on 10.6 and later), the precompiled python moduleswhich used to be hosted on modevia are gone, the script to fill the appbundle is outdated wrt upstream changes and awfully slow, availabledocumentation of the build and packaging process it out-of-date (alsowrt upstream changes in MacPorts, and in newer releases of OS X / Xcode).[2] These changes in 'src' also need to be verified to not cause issueson other platforms (for example the additional modifier added for usagein the keymap files).[3] Does not exist yet (as branch, or patch). In the osxmenu branch, onewould have to revert the OS integration parts, and its effects on thebundle structure & launcher. The resulting package would have less OSintegration (no support for 'Open with...' or for opening files bydrag&drop on the Dock icon), and still use 'Ctrl' instead of 'Cmd'.------------------------------------------------------------------------------Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book"Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and theirapplications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field,this first edition is now available. Download your free book today!_______________________________________________Inkscape-devel mailing list------------------------------------------------------------------------------Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book"Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and theirapplications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field,this first edition is now available. Download your free book today!_______________________________________________Inkscape-devel mailing list