[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] OSX build - ancient!

[Matthew McSpadden]

Correction, I will fix it as soon as I get home, I had forgotten that my 
svn client at work was just a trial and it has run out. But those will 
be changed to simply say the OS's they are as soon as I can, or someone 
else can feel free to change it as well. Just find the text on the 
downloads page and change it.

Matt

David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Caroline,
> 
> On 10/26/09, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>>
>> I've just tested tuxmath and tuxtype after finding out that tuxpaint won't
>> start on MacOS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard.
>>
>> tuxmath is fine (YAY!) but the tuxtype build we seem to be shipping seems to
>> be ancient.
> 
> Yep
> 
>> The file is called tuxtype_w_fonts-1.5-17-MacOS10.3PPC. I'd have to install
>> Rosetta to run the old PowerPC software.
>>
>> Our current windows build is 1.7.5!
>>
>> Looking at the releases page (https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31080)
>> we do have a build suitable for MacIntel - the Universal Binary which would
>> run on both Intel Mac and PowerPC. TuxType 1.5.17 - OS-X 10.4+
>> Universal<https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31080&release_id=1158>Could
>> the menu link to that instead?
> 
> That would be much better, although it isn't any more current a build
> of tuxtype.
> 
>> Do we need to find a new Mac packager?
> 
> Anyone volunteering?  I haven't exactly been deluged with Mac folks
> clamoring to do OSX builds for the project.
> 
>> Also the website has grammatical errors on the download page.
>> "Either you love it or your hate it, but it is unforgettable Mac OS X.".
> 
> I think we should ditch the editorializing about different OS
> platforms on our downloads page - it doesn't seem very professional.
> Let's just say "Mac OS X".
> 
>> The Debian-based should probably say Ubuntu too. In Ubuntu's case it would
>> be sudo apt-get install tuxtype or find it though the software centre.
> 
> Well, aptitude is preferred over apt-get because it better tracks
> automatically installed packages (although I think that Ubuntu may
> have added this capacity to apt-get recently), so it is a better
> practice to suggest aptitude.  I would hope that Ubuntu users know
> that their distribution is based on Debian and that they need to use
> sudo for system administration tasks, but maybe I shouldn't assume
> anything about that user base.  At least we will be able to forget
> about "tuxtype-data-nonfree" in the near future.
> 
>> The website mentions macports without saying what it is or where you find
>> it.
> 
> At one point I'm pretty sure that was a link to
> http://www.macports.org - some of the links in the text from the "old"
> site are now just text.
> 
>> I've googled and found:
>> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/games/tuxtype/Portfile which
>> says we have 1.7.4. Can we have this available for download?
> 
> Basically, I can build an intel-only dmg with macports without any
> problems.  The difficulty comes in building "universal" (intel/ppc)
> binaries, because libsdl_pango doesn't build correctly as universal.
> Also, Apple doesn't make it very feasible to build binaries that
> reliably work on multiple OS-X versions.
> 
> So the short answer is, I can definitely post intel-only Mac builds
> when the new versions of tuxmath and tuxtype come out (which I think
> we should call 1.8.0).
> 
> Best,
> 
> David
> David
> 
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