Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Revised Mac Installer Gutenprint v5.3.3

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Dec 7, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Michael Sweet <ms...@ms...> wrote:
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> Matt,
> 
> Once I installed Rosetta on my developer transition kit (basically a Mac mini with the A12 processor - about half the speed of the M1 systems now shipping) the existing (notarized) Intel package worked fine (and is plenty fast, even on this pre-production hardware).
> 
> For those playing along at home, the command to install Rosetta manually is:
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>    softwareupdate --install-rosetta
> 
> We should probably put this on the web site until you have native ARM builds posted...
> 
> 
>> On Dec 6, 2020, at 10:00 PM, Matt <wal...@ma...> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 6, 2020, at 11:50 AM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
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>>> On 12/6/20 11:04 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 02:56:49PM -0600, Matt wrote:
>>>>> Gutenprint is pleased to announce that a revised macos installer for 
>>>>> v5.3.3 has been released.  This installer will now work with Catalina 
>>>>> (macos 10.15) and BigSur (macos 11).  
>>>> 
>>>> This is _really really really_ good news.
>>>> 
>>>> IMO we should go ahead and cut a 5.3.4 release.  It would be nice to 
>>>> finally get that dyesub gamma curve fix (committed over a year ago!) 
>>>> into users' hands, and even on the Linux side of things the distro 
>>>> pipeline requires a formal release from us first...
>>> 
>>> I'm happy to build one (finally!), but before final release, I'd like to get some reports on the new
>>> installer on different versions .
>> 
>> I would tend to agree.  I seem to recall that there may be an issue with Rosetta not making a seamless transition.  Rosetta is not installed by default on the new M1 Macs.  If installing Rosetta solves the problem we should be fine.  I think Steve has a new computer on order to be delivered around the holidays.  My guess is that would be his build platform where he can build natively for the new chip and include the Intel code also in a fat binary.
>> Matt
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 

Thank you very much for testing this.  Your efforts are greatly appreciated and the report is great news.  Would it be "permissible" for our installer to check the architecture of the machine and check for the presence of Rosetta?  That would go a long way to getting installations working the first time and cut down the list traffic.

Matt