<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Hi,</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On 27-07-16 09:36, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
> hi<br>
><br>
>> On 27 Jul 2016, at 9:08 AM, Neumann, Andreas <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a><br>
</span><span class="gmail-">>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> I hear a lot of requests for the 2.16 OSX packages - also discussed on<br>
>> Twitter. I don't know Kyngchaos and I don't want to push him, because<br>
>> I don't know him personally - who is in contact with him? Are there<br>
>> technical issues or just a lack of time? Can we do something to<br>
>> assist/accelerate the process?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I'll pop him a note to ask.<br>
<br>
</span>He did reply to the same question on the user list:<br>
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<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-July/037197.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-July/037197.html</a><br>
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I've also dropped a note to Larry about the signed installer earlier,<br>
and did not hear anything back yet from there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the delay again on that. However, I did finish that work last weekend, and sent William all of the certs/keys to code-sign his installers.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I think we cannot push people, and trying to orchestrate releases more<br>
is just very complex. OS-X users just have to wait I think?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of note, I have two variations on generating QGIS OS X builds on OSGeo or QGIS project hardware that are based upon a Homebrew package backend (similar to our Travis CI setup):</div><div><br></div><div>* Bundle everything, including all supporting Processing apps/libs.</div><div>* Create an OSGeo4Mac installer, much like OSGeo4W, i.e. QGIS is only one package.</div><div><br></div><div>The latter was the whole point of my OSGeo4Mac project to begin with [0]. There are pros/cons to each approach. As a side note, I have already started on a similar approach for the Boundless Desktop distribution, where QGIS is a component. However, it will take considerable work to achieve the level of completeness that OSGeo4W currently provides (maybe 3-4 months).</div><div><br></div><div>This, to me, means providing a complete, bundled and code-signed QGIS.app for OS X, using a Homebrew formulae maintained in the QGIS source tree, is something that should be considered. I have done this type of full bundling at Boundless for a while now, up until now, where the Boundless Desktop architecture will be based upon Qt Installer Framework [1] and essentially build the groundwork for an OSGeo4Mac setup.</div><div><br></div><div>I have chosen NOT to release any of this work up until now, so as to not fracture the OS X QGIS distribution even further with 2.x releases. With the advent of QGIS 3.0, I feel it should now be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>The main reasons to base everything upon Homebrew:</div><div><br></div><div>* Very active community, with quick updates to incompatibility</div><div>* Any 'setup' installer or complete bundling build scripts will be plainly in public source control management, for anyone to help fix/advance.</div><div>* All non-bundled installs, even entire stacks, can run isolated from any other install. No installations into /Library/Frameworks, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Of note, I am getting paid at work to accomplish a variant of OSGeo4Mac (and actually a GUI variant of OSGeo4W) for the Boundless Desktop install. I would *very* much prefer to have this work contributed back upstream to the OSGeo/QGIS communities. Towards that end, if either the OSGeo or QGIS project were to finance the core part of that work, via my employer (like paid bug fixing arrangements in the past), I think this would be a good assurance that the code start/remain in the public domain.</div><div><br></div><div>I welcome further discussion on this, and can provide as much information as needed on implementation details.</div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac">https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac</a></div><div>[1] <a href="http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/index.html">http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Larry Shaffer<br>Dakota Cartography<br>Black Hills, South Dakota<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Regards,<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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