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[Pyobjc-dev] Fwd: SillyBallsSaver

[Jason S. <jsu...@gm...>]

I'm trying to get a PyObjC screensaver to run on osx 10.8, but not having
any luck.
Is it possible?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jason Toffaletti <tof...@gm...>
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: SillyBallsSaver
To: Jason Sundram <jsu...@gm...>


I'm sorry I can't help. I haven't done any Mac programming for many years.

On Jun 9, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Jason Sundram <jsu...@gm...> wrote:

Hi Jason,

I'm writing to you because I saw your email address in the readme for
SillyBallsSaver<https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc/src/78d315181dd4d7c7c18f366af5d7afb3b8583013/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver/Examples/SillyBallsSaver?at=default>.
I've been trying to run it on osx 10.8, which should apparently work
(according to this thread on
stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7821589/compile-64-bit-mac-app-with-py2app/7840593?noredirect=1#comment24574484_7840593>),
but couldn't get it to work.

Do you know what needs to be done to get it to run?

Thanks,

Jason

Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Fwd: SillyBallsSaver

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 6 Jul, 2013, at 2:58, Jason Sundram <jsu...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm trying to get a PyObjC screensaver to run on osx 10.8, but not having any luck.
> Is it possible?

It is possible, and don't understand yet why it works on my machine and not on other systems.

Ronald

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Toffaletti <tof...@gm...>
> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: SillyBallsSaver
> To: Jason Sundram <jsu...@gm...>
> 
> 
> I'm sorry I can't help. I haven't done any Mac programming for many years.
> 
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Jason Sundram <jsu...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jason,
>> 
>> I'm writing to you because I saw your email address in the readme for SillyBallsSaver. I've been trying to run it on osx 10.8, which should apparently work (according to this thread on stackoverflow), but couldn't get it to work.
>> 
>> Do you know what needs to be done to get it to run?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jason
> 
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Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Fwd: SillyBallsSaver

[Dinu G. <gh...@da...>]

Ronald Oussoren:

> It is possible, and don't understand yet why it works on my machine and not on other systems.

BTW, what's the testing strategy behind PyObjC, and does it involve systematic testing on several versions of OS X?

Cheers,

Dinu

Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Fwd: SillyBallsSaver

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 6 Jul, 2013, at 15:22, Dinu Gherman <gh...@da...> wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren:
> 
>> It is possible, and don't understand yet why it works on my machine and not on other systems.
> 
> BTW, what's the testing strategy behind PyObjC, and does it involve systematic testing on several versions of OS X?

"Testing strategy" is not quite the term I'd use. I primairily test on my laptop (currently running 10.8) and try to test on older OSX releases before pushing out larger updates.  A test suite would probably not have found this problem though, for frameworks I basicly check that the framework can be important and that symbols have the expected definition. The ScreenSaver framewor has always worked in non-GC processes to be able to configure a screensaver from system preferences, while actually using a screensaver required GC support in a number of OSX releases and that also wasn't caught by the testsuite.

I have a helper script to run the testsuite with a number of python versions and publish the results, and still want to use that to do some form of CI (even if that consists of running the testsuite weekly from a cron job, PyObjC doesn't change that much in general). The primary stumbling block for doing that is lack of resources, I need a machine other than my main one that I can use to run the testsuite in VMs with the various OSX releases.  I might use my current machine for that when Apple releases the next generation of macbooks ;-). At one time I hoped to use a Linux system with KVM for this, but AFAIK KVM doesn't support OSX guests yet.

Ronald