From: John R. <jr...@ce...> - 2013-09-20 13:41:55
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On Sep 20, 2013, at 3:34 AM, Ronan Waide <wa...@gm...> wrote: > On 09/20/2013 10:39 AM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: >> On 20.09.2013 12:29, Ronan Waide wrote: >>> >>> I can put the nightly Mac builds on my own webserver on a trial basis >>> to see what sort of cost it incurs. I'm using Amazon Web Services, so >>> if it turns out to be too expensive I'll figure out some way of >>> restricting it. We could probably drop nightly builds into a >>> directory on sourceforge, mind you. >>> >> Sounds great, thanks for willing to try it out! >> v > > http://www.waider.ie/gramps/Gramps-Intel-trunk-r22913.dmg > > As this is the first one of these I've put together, a couple of notes > are in order - I should include these in an extra README file, possibly > one that opens automatically when you mount the disk. > > * The build is from trunk, SVN revision 22913, as indicated in the > filename. The build script should allow me to provide arbitrary branch > builds, but I haven't tested that. > * The build is for Intel, and may possibly be 64-bit only - I've not > checked this. > * This was built on MacOS 10.7 to avoid the problems we've seen with > low-level pygobject crashes using XCode4 on 10.8. I don't yet have a > working 10.8.5 environment to see if this bug still exists, but I know > that a 10.7 build will at least not crash on startup! > * I'm not a registered Apple developer, so the binary isn't signed, > which means you have to right-click and select 'Open' to launch the app, > unless you've configured MacOS to ignore application signatures. > * I've done no real testing on this other than verifying that I can run > it and open an existing tree (with accompanying warnings about upgrading > the database, etc.) > * I've made some minor changes to the build to allow it to build; this > includes updating the bundler file, and fixing the resourcepath issue. I > know John's aware of the latter, not sure about the former since it only > matters when you're trying to build the finished application. In any > case, I can file a bug and offer a patch. > > I'd appreciate if any Mac users lurking on the list, developer or > otherwise, could give this a spin and let me know if it works for them. > DO NOT FEED THIS ANY DATA YOU CARE ABOUT WITHOUT BACKING UP FIRST. It's > a developer release, it will possibly contain bugs. > > Oh, and as noted, if my hosting costs suddenly skyrocket I'll be > removing this build. In any case, since the URL is based on the SVN > revision it has a limited lifetime :) Ronan, You can enable 32-bit builds with SDK 10.6 by calling setup_sdk(10.6, 10.6, [i386]) from your .jhbuildrc-custom. That will allow a somewhat broader audience to use the builds. Regards, John Ralls |