From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4234 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2004 18:28:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4114 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2004 18:28:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net) (204.127.198.39) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 18:28:23 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-176-41-158.client.comcast.net[67.176.41.158]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004122818282201500ca136e>; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:28:22 +0000 Message-ID: <41D1A5A8.1050901@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:35:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Beaty CC: xconq7 , xconq-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: New File Release: xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20041228 References: <41D0BEC6.1020505@phy.cmich.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01493.txt.bz2 Hi Bob, Bob Beaty wrote: > I think the new release sounds great. > I wondered if the support for Mac OSX has simply dried up? The main developer for the Mac native port of Xconq has not been heard from for a while. I don't whether this is because he is on sabbatical and simply too busy or whether he got upset after a disagreement that I had with him. Or maybe some other reason.... I do hope that he wasn't in Sri Lanka recently though; that is where he was last Feb or March when he disappeared for a while, IIRC. Sourceforge does have a compile farm which includes a MacOS box or two. At some point, I will be attempting to compile Xconq on MacOS using the SF farm. However, since I have no MacOS (9 or X) machine at home, I cannot test the results. I will need testers. You are only one of two MacOS users that I know of (besides Hans). As Lincoln stated in his reply while I was writing this one, we are trying to reduce the number of interfaces officially supported. Since the Mac native interface was platform-specific and I had no means of building and testing it, I pulled the plug on it. I also pulled the plug on the old X11 interface. This leaves the Tcl/Tk, SDL, and Curses interfaces. I was planning on getting rid of the Tcl/Tk interface before the 7.5.0 release; however, after working with it some more, I am willing to commute its death sentence for at least one more release cycle. This should make at least one Solaris user happy. You should note that the Tcl/Tk and SDL interfaces used to work on the Mac. It is my hope that if I can get them to compile correctly and have some patient testers to work with, I can support your platform again. Of course, if you know of any willing MacOS developers, that would be even better.... Regards, Eric