Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Gutenprint 5.3.5-pre1 Release

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I definitely support fleeing from source forge.
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> On Jul 9, 2024, at 18:29, Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel <gim...@li...> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 07:49:34PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> This really seems buggy of sourceforge, and seems to be hostile to
>> packaging.  I am guessing this is just how it is, and there's not much
>> to be done, other than skipping github and moving to codeberg :-)
> 
> I'd probably jump straight to sourcehut instead, because I prefer email.
> 
> ...just have to get this release out the door before I can figure out 
> what to do next.  I'd rather self-host than stay on sourceforge.
> 
>> I am curious if other packagers also find this troublesome.  They might
>> well not; this is just a collision between pkgsrc assuming
>> near-universal practice and sourceforge being odd.
> 
> I honestly don't know.
> 
>>>  0) Support for running on MacOS has been deprecated. Unless someone
>>>     steps up to maintain the MacOS port, there will be no MacOS
>>>     builds for this (or any future) Gutenprint release.
>> 
>> I'm hoping that a posix-type build on macos is ok, but if not we can
>> mark the pkgsrc package BROKEN.
> 
> Given that we have to integrate with the MacOS printing subsystem and 
> directly speak to attached USB devices, I don't believe a posix-type 
> build has been sufficient for something like a decade..
> 
> - Solomon
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