[Synfig-devl] [ synfig-Bugs-1686495 ] no MacOS X binary available, no MacOS maintainer

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Bugs item #1686495, was opened at 2007-03-23 03:54
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Category: Binary Installation
Group: Latest release (0.61.06)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: Paul Wise (pabs3)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: no MacOS X binary available, no MacOS maintainer

Initial Comment:
We have no binary available for MacOS X and no-one to maintain a MacOS X port. This is currently a blocker for the next release. There are scripts in the source code to build MacOS packages, but we have no-one to build, test, port and provide packages. If you would like to take on the task of providing MacOS packages, please take the following into consideration.

Bugs in the previous, broken packages are available here, they should be avoided in any new packages:

http://sf.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=144022&atid=757416&summary_keyword=mac&set=custom&_status=100&_assigned_to=0

GTK+ is being ported to MacOS X native, any packages should probably use that instead of MacOS X X11:

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx

Packages would preferably be provided as a single app-bundle to be placed in any directory on the system and Just Work (TM).

Additionally, it would be nice to have fink packages too :)

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Comment By: sirhcsenots (sirhcsenots)
Date: 2007-08-26 18:13

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Maybe I could help. I'm currently examining the code now.

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Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3)
Date: 2007-05-28 02:38

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Excellent.

I've no idea about your gtk question, I can't even find anything on Google
about gtk_cursor_by_name, I'd suggest the source or koders.com:

http://www.koders.com/default.aspx?s=gtk_cursor_by_name&btn=Search&la=*&li=*

synfigstudio uses GTKmm BTW. Also, we don't really have any people who
know GTK+/GTKmm well involved in synfig.

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Comment By: Ampersand Laboratories Team (andlabs)
Date: 2007-05-28 01:51

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See you on the IRC soon

PS - where can I learn about some of the more exclusive features of GTK+?
For example, the documentation doesn't discuss the gtk_cursor_by_name
function which takes a name like "arrow" instead of GTK_ARROW.

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Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3)
Date: 2007-05-27 23:35

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andlabs, awesome!

Fisrt, come join us on IRC and on the devel and user mailing lists (send
an intro to both please).

Second, check out the source from SVN, third, look at the osx script and
update the build instructions page for MacOS X:

http://wiki.synfig.com/Build_instructions

After that, improve the OS X build by sending in patches that we can apply
to SVN.

Help out the GTK on native OS X project by sending patches.

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Comment By: Ampersand Laboratories Team (andlabs)
Date: 2007-05-25 20:16

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I'll do it! I've been interested in Synfig for a while. I hope I can do it
with just your downloads! If not, what else do I need?

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