Thanks William, It sounds like you have some good checks in place with the installer. With that worked out, I agree that there is not a lot of value in creating another build for you to manage and host.
Regards, John On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:24 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: > I didn't check back on this after I saw it added to MacUpdate, and strangely > I don't recall seeing updates listed (I check daily). > > For all the complaints about the requirements missing from the readme - > bogus, they are there. And starting with 1.7.1, an installer is used that > will not install without the frameworks. > > But, for the all-in-one, a bug affecting this was only recently fixed, and > I've been too busy to work out the packaging details. I got a start, but > it's a complex thing to do. > > And you lose GRASS support in the all-in-one. Once you need GRASS support > (when the GRASS provider bug is finally fixed), you're back to installing the > frameworks. > > On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:07 AM, John C. Tull wrote: > >> Hi William, >> >> I was looking at comments on QGIS at macupdate: >> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25428/quantum-gis >> >> Unfortunately, there are some negative reviews that seem to be tied to >> inexperienced users not following install directions. Considering that the >> installation of frameworks is likely unfamiliar for most casual users of >> OSX, I wondered if it would be possible to provide the all-in-one bundled >> application like you used to do? Having a unified application with >> frameworks bundled, although quite massive, would alleviate the most likely >> cause for failure on new installs being reported in the comments. >> >> Cheers, >> John > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > Theory of the Universe > > There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the > universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be > replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another > theory which states that this has already happened. > > -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2nd season intro > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
