[Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4 is Ready
Curt, I was able to find a clean Mac on which to try the FlightGear.app and it worked. I have uploaded a .tgz file containing the application, a sample resource file, a README file, and the base packages to my web page. It is 76MB and can be downloaded from http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/FlightGear-0.9.4.tgz Let me know when it has been captured so I can reclaim the space. Thanks, Jonathan Polley ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
Jonathan, Thanks, please let me know when you think these are ready to copy to ftp server. Would it be preferable to just distribute the .app version? Is there any problems for poeple if we leave the file compressed? I assume they need to still download and install the base package (and specify it's location when they run fgfs.) How hard would it be to bundle up a mac version that includes the base package and the executable and is all self extracting/installing? Thanks, Curt. Jonathan Polley wrote: I am putting two FlightGear executables on my web page. The first is a standard UNIX-style executable and the second uses a .app wrapper (probably as close as I can come to an installer under MacOS, since it really doesn't use them). They were built under MacOS X 10.3.3. http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/fgfs.tgz http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/FlightGear.app.tgz I would really appreciate it if someone were to download both of them and give them a try. It's not that I am paranoid or anything :) Jonathan Polley On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jonathan Polley wrote: Curt, I just built one last night. I can strip it and put on my web space for you to pick up. Ok, thanks! By the way, do you or any other Mac developers have any thoughts on packaging FG in a MacOSX friendly installer (kind of like what we do for most of the other platforms?) Right now, most Mac people have a pretty tough time dealing with a binary that has to be executed from command line with command line options. It would be nice to get the fgrun launcher going on the Mac platform as well. This and better packaging could go a *long* ways towards making FG more Mac friendly. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
I would prefer to distribute the .app version, but I need someone to verify it for me. Just because it works for me does not mean that I created it properly. Come on Mac users, give it a try! :) When I use FlightGear, I have no choice but to use the .fgfsrc file. Unfortunately, because OS X is BSD based, all files that start with a dot are hidden by the Finder. I don't know of a good way to create the file and let people know how to edit it (what I did was create a file called FlightGear_Config and then make a symbolic link to it called .fgfsrc). If I create a disk image, I can put a README file in there along with the executable. I *MAY* be able to create a disk image that contains both the FlightGear application and the base package, but it will be close (I notice that the Win32 version is 82+ MB and I only have 100 MB of storage). Jonathan Polley On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 01:52PM, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan, Thanks, please let me know when you think these are ready to copy to ftp server. Would it be preferable to just distribute the .app version? Is there any problems for poeple if we leave the file compressed? I assume they need to still download and install the base package (and specify it's location when they run fgfs.) How hard would it be to bundle up a mac version that includes the base package and the executable and is all self extracting/installing? Thanks, Curt. Jonathan Polley wrote: I am putting two FlightGear executables on my web page. The first is a standard UNIX-style executable and the second uses a .app wrapper (probably as close as I can come to an installer under MacOS, since it really doesn't use them). They were built under MacOS X 10.3.3. http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/fgfs.tgz http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/FlightGear.app.tgz I would really appreciate it if someone were to download both of them and give them a try. It's not that I am paranoid or anything :) Jonathan Polley On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jonathan Polley wrote: Curt, I just built one last night. I can strip it and put on my web space for you to pick up. Ok, thanks! By the way, do you or any other Mac developers have any thoughts on packaging FG in a MacOSX friendly installer (kind of like what we do for most of the other platforms?) Right now, most Mac people have a pretty tough time dealing with a binary that has to be executed from command line with command line options. It would be nice to get the fgrun launcher going on the Mac platform as well. This and better packaging could go a *long* ways towards making FG more Mac friendly. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel Of COURSE they can do that. They're engineers! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
Has anyone build a MacOS version of FG-0.9.4? Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
Jonathan Polley wrote: Curt, I just built one last night. I can strip it and put on my web space for you to pick up. Ok, thanks! By the way, do you or any other Mac developers have any thoughts on packaging FG in a MacOSX friendly installer (kind of like what we do for most of the other platforms?) Right now, most Mac people have a pretty tough time dealing with a binary that has to be executed from command line with command line options. It would be nice to get the fgrun launcher going on the Mac platform as well. This and better packaging could go a *long* ways towards making FG more Mac friendly. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
Curt, I just built one last night. I can strip it and put on my web space for you to pick up. Jonathan Polley On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 03:19PM, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone build a MacOS version of FG-0.9.4? Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel Of COURSE they can do that. They're engineers! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS version of 0.9.4
I am putting two FlightGear executables on my web page. The first is a standard UNIX-style executable and the second uses a .app wrapper (probably as close as I can come to an installer under MacOS, since it really doesn't use them). They were built under MacOS X 10.3.3. http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/fgfs.tgz http://homepage.mac.com/eq_fidget/fgfs/FlightGear.app.tgz I would really appreciate it if someone were to download both of them and give them a try. It's not that I am paranoid or anything :) Jonathan Polley On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jonathan Polley wrote: Curt, I just built one last night. I can strip it and put on my web space for you to pick up. Ok, thanks! By the way, do you or any other Mac developers have any thoughts on packaging FG in a MacOSX friendly installer (kind of like what we do for most of the other platforms?) Right now, most Mac people have a pretty tough time dealing with a binary that has to be executed from command line with command line options. It would be nice to get the fgrun launcher going on the Mac platform as well. This and better packaging could go a *long* ways towards making FG more Mac friendly. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
