Re: [Freeciv-Dev] [task #7426] Mac packages for 2.2.7
On 20 August 2011 02:12, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote: Do we have a policy on which versions of OSX we support? If not, maybe we should have a conversation toward that end. As a starting position i'd like to suggest that our binaries should be able to run on OSX versions that are officially supported by Apple [10.7, 10.6], as well as the previous version [10.5]. Yes, that does mean continuing to supply PPC binaries for a few years more. Do we have people able to do those builds? If not, stating (binary) support in some official policy will not make it to happen. Having it never-actually-executed part of our policy would only make one to doubt reliability of our official policies in general. Source code support is different thing altogether, of course. We should not break things so that *nobody* can build freeciv on OSX version still supported by Apple. That's basically equivalent of how we are not going to increase minimum autoconf requirement past what any still supported ubuntu releases (including oldish LTS ones) have. - ML ___ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
Re: [Freeciv-Dev] [task #7426] Mac packages for 2.2.7
On 19 Aug, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: Do we have people able to do those builds? If not, stating (binary) support in some official policy will not make it to happen. Having it never-actually-executed part of our policy would only make one to doubt reliability of our official policies in general. Yeah, that is a problem. Volunteers will do what they are willing to do and i'm certainly don't want to force anybody to do otherwise. OTOH, supplying binaries that only work in a sliver of currently running Macs is nearly the same as supplying no binaries at all. I just feel that there is room for improvement [in a perfect world we would have a self-contained application bundle that doesn't need a password to install], and it can't hurt to ask if we as a project are happy with what we currently offer. Back to the main topic, any sane build from a Snow Leopard or XCode 3 system *should* be able to run on all Intel Macs - only PPC support adds any difficulty. Source code support is different thing altogether, of course. I fully agree. Sent from my MacBookPro Rabbit au gratin de gelatine under tooled leather... drool, drool! ___ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
Re: [Freeciv-Dev] [task #7426] Mac packages for 2.2.7
On 17 Aug, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Nathan Brazil wrote: Hi. I don't have a Snow Leopard system that would allow me to test whether the binaries I produced on Lion will run on the older OS or not, so I am choosing to err on the safer side of not. If someone were able to test it out, that'd be great. However, I have no reason to believe that Freeciv won't run on Snow Leopard or Leopard via MacPorts. Actually, that is questionable. XCode 4 [the one that comes with Lion] no longer includes SDKs or other support for 10.5 or indeed anything that might be able to run on a PowerPC. There are how-tos on the web to pull that material out of XCode 3 and install it on Lion, but it won't natively be able to target those earlier versions. Unless MacPorts has their own headers, i don't see how they can work around this problem. I am also involved with Fink, and we are wrestling with this issue as well. This won't affect self-compilation, only cross-compilation. Therefore, MacPorts and Fink users who use their respective system to locally build a binary won't notice a problem. Anyway, i do have both 10.5 and 10.6 systems i can try this on in a few days... Sent from my MacBookPro Next time buy the two-ply kind, said Tom roughly. ___ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
Re: [Freeciv-Dev] [task #7426] Mac packages for 2.2.7
On 17 Aug, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Nathan Brazil wrote: However, I have no reason to believe that Freeciv won't run on Snow Leopard or Leopard via MacPorts. The provided binary does not run on SL; i didn't bother checking Leopard. Do we have a policy on which versions of OSX we support? If not, maybe we should have a conversation toward that end. As a starting position i'd like to suggest that our binaries should be able to run on OSX versions that are officially supported by Apple [10.7, 10.6], as well as the previous version [10.5]. Yes, that does mean continuing to supply PPC binaries for a few years more. Sent from my MacBookPro One for the money, two for the money, three for the money. ___ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
Re: [Freeciv-Dev] [task #7426] Mac packages for 2.2.7
Hi. I don't have a Snow Leopard system that would allow me to test whether the binaries I produced on Lion will run on the older OS or not, so I am choosing to err on the safer side of not. If someone were able to test it out, that'd be great. However, I have no reason to believe that Freeciv won't run on Snow Leopard or Leopard via MacPorts. Regards, -- On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:36 AM, Jacob Nevins wrote: Follow-up Comment #1, task #7426 (project freeciv): I see a freeciv-2.2.7-lion-gtk2.dmg was uploaded to SF / Gna last Wednesday (thanks). So this is done now, I think? (I don't know much about the Mac OS, but this forum post http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?p=27684#27684 indicates that this version won't run on Leopard, and presumably prior versions. I assume it will no longer be possible to produce packages that run on Leopard, so our advice to remaining Leopard users should be to compile it from source using MacPorts or similar. What about Snow Leopard -- is the lion binary not expected to run there either?) ___ Reply to this item at: http://gna.org/task/?7426 ___ Message sent via/by Gna! http://gna.org/ ___ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
