Re: [Gimp-print-devel] A question

[Steve L. <sle...@ya...>]

I can certainly do the builds and ask Michael to sign until I can get that straight.

Steve Letter

> On Nov 27, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
> 
> On 11/27/20 10:20 AM, Matt Broughton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Nov 26, 2020, at 8:42 AM, Steve Letter <sle...@ya... <mailto:sle...@ya...>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So i don’t need to build any more?  I no longer work for a printer manufacturer and don’t have my
>>> current employer’s support (haven’t for quite some time).  I don’t even do any Mac work so I have
>>> kept my developer ID simply for this work. 
>>> 
>>> I WOULD like to continue, if I can be of help. My current position, senior Embedded Engineer has
>>> me working in the security industry, both bare metal and embedded Linux.  So this would be my only
>>> way to keep my hand in Mac development. 
>>> 
>>> Steve Letter
>>> Sent from my Commodore PET
>> 
>> I can't speak for Michael, but my guess is that he wasn't volunteering to be the maintainer for the
>> long haul.  The Mac sector at Gutenprint had not yet been able to post a signed and notarized
>> version that would install on macos 10.15.x. Michael was able to get your last package notarized and
>> is making it available for us to use.
>> 
>> The last correspondence with you indicated that you had not yet been able to get the package
>> notarized.  Have you been able to overcome the hurdles of getting things notarized?  I think that
>> Xcode 12 will be needed to deal with Apple's new chipset.  That requires macos 15.x or macos 11.
>>  Would you be able to those build environments available?  I *think* those are the minimum
>> requirements that are now needed for a Mac maintainer.
>> 
>> It is really up to Robert to determine what he needs for a maintainer.  The only thing I can do is
>> to help specify the technical requirements as best I know them.
> 
> My concern is simply how we get to having clean Mac builds.  Not being a Mac expert myself, I have
> to trust those who are.  If Mike and Steve want to do it such that Steve does the builds and Mike
> notarizes them, that's fine; if they agree to some other arrangement, that's fine also.  I just want
> to get quality builds done in a reasonable amount of time.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gimp-print-devel mailing list
> Gim...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel