Hi Harry. First of all, big thanks are in order. Thanks to your work, not only me, but also a lot of my friends got hooked up on the world of panoramic imaging. They're not programmers, and by most definitions they are not photographers, but Hugin has become for them (and for me) an invaluable tool to keep memories of great places they've been.
Now to the topic: I'll candidate myself for this. I'm a far from ideal candidate for this job: I never dwelt in the source, have very little knowledge of the build process, I have serious doubts I could keep your pace, et cetera (On the plus side, it's very unlikely that I'll switch platform anytime soon.). But I don't want to see Hugin for mac disappear, and I'll do what I can to avoid it. On Monday, June 25, 2012 8:07:12 PM UTC+2, Harry van der Wolf wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm moving away from Mac OS X and back to Linux: I just bought a new > laptop and put it on Ubuntu. I started using Linux in 1993 (when it was > really only a kernel and a gcc predecessor and few curses based programs) > and since 2003 I completely switched to linux apart from video editing. I > switched to Mac OSX in 2006 when I was given a macbook and now I switch > back to (Ubuntu) linux. > I won't throw my MacBook Pro out of the window as my wife will keep > using it as long as it will function, but I will move away. > (Reasons and rant far below in this mail) > > With regard to Hugin: > The XCode project has grown to a complex thing to maintain due to more and > more dependencies and Apple's weird gcc/openmp "strategy" . Having > maintained it now for 5 years for me most changes seem like small steps, > unless some GSOC "chunk" moves in. For a newcomer I assume it's > overwhelming. > > What I will do in the coming time in the XCode project (next to trying to > keep up with the current developments): > - Move from wxwidgets Carbon to wxwidgets Cocoa as carbon is going to be > abandoned and it isn 64bit anyway. This is already implemented in the > gui-overhaul branch be it experiemental. > - Create several targets: > -- a simple non-openmp target group which will build Hugin and which > should be the most simple approach for a starting builder > -- a openmp target group for the more experienced, daring builder > (patch here, patch there, patch everywhere). > -- trying to build a python enabled target. > - Build a scripted portable Hugin bundle from the command line. > > *But the most important line in this email:* In a very near future I will > ask others to step in as builders. > Feel free to volunteer now :) > > One more "with regard to Hugin": Lately more and more dependencies crept > in. Next to that: Due to Apple's own curious strategy with regard to > apple-gcc support and development, the openMP stuff really becomes a > "patched" thing and hard to maintain over OS X versions (think of the > enblend issues on Lion, which is now solved fortunately). Non openmp stuff > needs to be compiled with gcc 4.2 or gcc 4.3 and openmp stuff can only be > compiled with gcc 4.6.x (and not officially from Apple) to be able to run > on Lion and up: This Lion OpenMP issue is an open bug for over a year now > and still not solved by Apple and it can only be "solved" with the > non-official patched 4.6 gcc. Probably it's "Apple strategy" to do nothing > in this case: They want you to develop on Lion (buy it) for Lion (end > users buy it). This patched non-apple gcc 4.6 fails to compile over 90% of > the non-openmp stuff on non-Lion systems. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
