Hi James I'm still trying to be this 10.5 person these days, I don't give up that fast of course ;-) And I spent a lot of time this week in this believe me.
It started with having all dependencies right, and now I'm still trying to get simgear/flightgear the right way. When I succeed I will need some tests (by "real" 10.5 users, but also by users up to 6/7/8). I will clone the sg/fg repositories and add the directives, send some merge requests. Actually there are only two small changes in code checked in by you: The cocoa clipboard code in flightgear source (the patch I already sent), and in simgear "svn_cmdline_create_auth_baton" and "svn_client_checkout3" which can't be used with sdk 10.5. But the alternatives here are already in place, it just needs a clever directive using the SVN_VER_MINOR already there. I got also the sound working now for 10.5, and I'm actually building a FGx 2.10 against SDK 10.5. When I succeed I will post a download link at forums to test, and then I will bring the small changes I made to a clone/merge request to verify. Thanks, Yves Am 16.02.13 15:15, schrieb James Turner: > > On 15 Feb 2013, at 23:56, ys <flightg...@sablonier.ch> wrote: > >> Ok, can we have a decision that SimGear/FlightGear is not supporting OSX >> 10.5 on intel anymore ? FG 2.8 is doable, and maybe 2.10 with some further >> tweaks too, but after looking to what's coming up with "next" I see that >> more and more tweaks are needed and that core developers do not take 10.5 >> into account anymore (what I can understand very well, but it's not >> mentioned anywhere, when I'm not wrong). >> >> Fact is that all dependencies still supports osx 10.5 on intel, but sg/fg >> doesn't anymore (since 2.8 this is also posted at flightgear.org for mac >> release, >= 10.6). As stated by James sg/fg code is not tested against 10.5 >> by core developers anymore, so please ... I my view a small message should >> come to changelog which can be referenced by "supporters" at forums and >> elsewhere for this fact. Or do you think this is completely wrong ? >> > > Hmm, I'm not sure what to say - I'm not aware of any 'upcoming' stuff in next > that makes 10.5 support harder. There's changes, e.g. the file-dialog stuff, > if it does't work with 10.5 (and I've no idea if does or not), can simply be > #ifdef-ed based on the system version. That's the *only* think I can think of > in next which would affect system support. > > And I maintain, that 10.5 support is pretty doable with the 2.10 codebase, or > 'next', if someone wishes to invest some time. So making an 'official > statement' seems a bit silly - just like it would be odd to make a statement > saying we don't support FreeBSD or Cygwin or Windows 2k. I imagine some of > those platforms need a similar amount of tweaking to Mac 10.5, to work out of > the box, since no one tried them in years, but if someone cares to make them > work, they will work - and I'm happy to apply patches to support them, so > long as they don't break existing stuff. > > (Actually I think FreeBSD does work, precisely because someone did that work, > for 2.8) > > So we can make such a statement, and if someone asks, the reason for making > the statement, is because you asked for such a statement! - but I don't > really see who that benefits? It will still be possible to #ifdef some code > and support 10.5, if there's a person interested / motivated enough to make > it happen. > > Regards, > James > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, > is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, > whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most > recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
