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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great!  It's good to have another OS X person interested in helping out!

The .app bundle work was mostly done by Bernhard, but I'm working on a
osxbuilder (similar in philosophy to the winbuilder), that rearranges some
things and creates a pretty dmg that does things users expect, with the
proper documentation and all.  It's been "a few hours away from being done"
for about 2 months now, as the scope slowly increases :)

I'm not certain that we want to support 10.6 though.  If we "officially"
support it we probably have to test on it, and they haven't done security
updates for it in about a year.

One of the open issues is the dropdowns at the top of the windows.  They
don't quite work right in OS X.  Someone on the list started investigating,
but I haven't heard much recently on it.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Collin Anderson <metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Great, thanks for the quick response! I noticed some PPC architecture
> stuff in the download_boost cmake module, so I was worried 10.5 or even
> 10.4u were the goal.   10.7 is much more reasonable :).  Also, great work
> on the OS X build, .app bundles can be a headache to deal with using
> traditional build systems/workflows.
>
> I *think* I may have resolved the issues preventing a 10.6+ build, once I
> finish checking some things, I'll put a branch up on launchpad later today
> hopefully.
>
> Oh, and is there anything specific that no one is working on OS X-wise?
> I'd be happy to see what I can do, and that's probably my main expertise
> (OS X development and dealing with its unique 'quirks').  Otherwise I'll
> keep getting acquainted with the code and reading the dev list until I can
> hopefully find something useful to contribute.  Anyway, thanks for the help!
> —
> The Electropimp - Collin Anderson
> metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Jan 4, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> So far, we have been able to support building for 10.7 and newer.
>
> Older than that, and we have problems with dependencies and compiler
> interactions.
>
> (This isn't an official policy but I don't think there is one at this
> point.)
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Collin Anderson <metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I wanted to ask the OS X developers a quick question.  What is the
>> oldest version of OS X that is intended to officially be supported by
>> KiCad? I want to know what to target for testing any changes/additions I
>> may make.  Thanks!
>>
>> The Electropimp - Collin Anderson
>> metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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