Dear Rick,
I just wanted to mention that there is a number of Mac installers available here
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p66c7g01h4jz5ss/AAAZd_Q2yQddrTHagxPo_UiTa?dl=0
<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p66c7g01h4jz5ss/AAAZd_Q2yQddrTHagxPo_UiTa?dl=0>
I have been doing some work on Mac installers and I have made a proper
GUI-based pkg installer for (an older version of) ooRexx 5.0.0. I have also
created some command line installers, for instance for standalone use on a USB
memory, all work. There are more in the pipeline but I got stuck when I tried
to create them from an automated process (Apple removed some possibilities that
I need). The installers have been made using the tool „Packages“ and can be
created ad hoc, I have all the scripts etc necessary. There is also a Jenkins
slave generating (hopefully) daily builds for Mac in my attic.
I have promised Erich to grind through all the examples to see which ones work
and which doesn’t, it is in the pipeline for the coming weeks.
I have created a text for the WIKI for Mac as well setting out all the
necessary steps for creating your own installation (I have not uploaded it).
What is needed it a discussion amongst the developers as to where the
installation should reside. My .pkg installs in /usr/local (where a majority of
tools install themselves on MAC) but I have done versions that install in /opt
as well, in principle I can create an installer for installation anywhere on
the machine, you just have to agree on one place, or create installers for each
flavor. The BSF+ooRexx installers from Rony are no different here, as far as
ooRexx is concerned they work exactly as the ones I have made.
Would it be possible to make a definitive list of „Showstoppers“? I think it
would be great if ooRexx 5.0.0 would be officially released: currently there is
no installer available at all for Mac (all older MAC installer are
non-working). I for one is willing to do any part I can contribute.
Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse,
P.O. Jonsson
oor...@jonases.se
> Am 17.06.2018 um 15:20 schrieb Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:21 AM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at
> <mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>> wrote:
> Almost a month has passed since my last posting, so assuming that everyone is
> just in "wait and see"
> mode. Therefore throwing another stone into the water: how about releasing
> the current 5.0 Beta this
> coming week?
> :)
>
> Or are there any showstoppers anyone sees? Is there anything that is
> currently missing and needs to
> be done?
>
> There are still a number of bugs and features that still need doc or test
> work before they can be placed in a pending state. There's also not been any
> work on a Mac installer created.
>
>
> When suggesting the current beta, mentally I included the great new features
> "address with" and
> variable references from Rick's sandbox (for each there is a 64-bit Windows
> ooRexx installation
> package at:
> <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/olh1mqfwb4brp7r/AABI1X-Le9zDCJ0gyfvMdKB8a?dl=0
> <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/olh1mqfwb4brp7r/AABI1X-Le9zDCJ0gyfvMdKB8a?dl=0>>).
> AFAIK they
> are not in trunk and hence may need to be added to trunk and maybe it may
> make sense to create one
> more ooRexx 5.0 beta to get it tested on a wider scale for a few weeks.
> Alternatively, after
> releasing the current 5.0 beta as GA, these new features may get added to
> trunk and cause a new 5.1
> beta version to be created which may be released sometimes in the fall.
>
> There's still a bit a doc and possibly some more testing work needed with the
> address with and variable reference features.
>
>
>
> Ad rsock6: not seeing any commits in the repository not sure about its state.
> However, like with
> Unicode, in the case that IPv6 is really needed for the time being one can
> use the ooRexx external
> function package BSF4ooRexx to get access to it from ooRexx (in this case
> even SSL etc. becomes
> available to ooRexx programmers).
>
> At this point, I'd say that rxsock6 should not be included. Work sort of
> stalled when I had to go without internet service for over 3 weeks. David's
> code had a lot of issues and needed a complete redo. There are no tests
> written for this and it will also need new documentation written. This will
> need to be snipped out of the trunk build and moved to a sandbox before a
> release candidate can be created.
>
> Rick
> ---rony
>
>
> On 22.05.2018 14:42, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> > ooRexx 5.0 Beta has been out for quite some time.
> >
> > Besides its great new features it has proved to be stabler than 4.2.0 and
> > much faster in quite a few
> > aspects!
> >
> > As there are no new bugs reported against ooRexx 5.0 Beta, how about
> > releasing it as ooRexx 5.0 GA
> > (general availability)?
> >
> > Companies usually would not install software that is labeled "beta".
> >
> > ---rony
> >
>
>
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