Re: [Camelbones-devel] Camelbones donations?

[Sherm P. <sh...@do...>]

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 09:18 AM, Thilo Planz wrote:

> If the situation is so grim, maybe we should set up some way for people 
> to donate to the project.

It has already improved some, actually. Apple has generously donated a 
software 'seed key', so I'll be receiving a copy of the Panther 
developer preview CD when that ships.

> I have no experience with PayPal, but that could work.

I've heard horror stories about PayPal. Also, iirc, SourceForge frowns 
on solicitation for donations on sites that are hosted there.

> I am sure we could raise a Jaguar in no time (although I wince at 
> investing in one now that Panther is around the corner).

I'm sort of reluctant, too, for the same reason. There are other 
possibilities, though:

My seed key (thanks Apple!) gives me access to download the last Jaguar 
pre-release. The terms of use don't allow me to release binaries built 
with it, but binaries built on 10.1 should still be usable on Jag 
anyway. It's building the framework from source on Jag that's posing the 
most problems, and the beta should be stable enough for me to use it to 
figure out those issues and document them.

The flaw in this idea is that I'm using a 56K dialup, so downloading the 
disk images would take a long, long time. Maybe, now that I have 
legitimate access to beta downloads, some kind soul with the same level 
of access and a broadband connection could download 'em for me and burn 
them to CD.

One idea that comes to mind is that there are probably people out there 
who bought the Jaguar 5-license "family pack", but aren't using all five 
licenses. It would probably be stretching the licensing terms a bit, but 
someone in that situation could "adopt" me into their family, and kick a 
CD my way.

Another possibility is that I could download the Project Builder 2.0 
beta for 10.1, which includes GCC 3.x. Like the Jag pre-release, the 
terms of use don't allow the public release of binaries built with it, 
but it's probably adequate for testing purposes - most of the 
difficulties being reported are due to the difference between GCC 2.95 
and 3.x.

Hmmm... One last idea. SourceForge has a compile farm with Jaguar 
machines in it - I could probably just upload the project to that, and 
use the 'pbxbuild" command-line tool to test it. I don't know how much 
access SF allows to those machines, though - I'll have to check.

sherm--


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Going forward is a way to retreat.
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Even a perfect program still has bugs.

		-- The Tao of Programming