[QGIS-Developer] archive/remove repo qgis/homebrew-qgisdev

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Peter, Tim and all,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:38 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thats fine for me too - I also contributed a bit to the home-brew docs …
> but….
>

I, too, am fine with this repo being removed, after a culling of pertinent
info.


> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/doc/osx.t2t is really out of
> date (still referring to Qt4) so can you clarify where the canonical macOS
> docs are currently?
>
> Also we did a very detailed developer environment setup here:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/homebrew-qgisdev/blob/master/development/README.md
>
> That I would not like to see lost - we should update it or replace it if
> there is something better out there.
>

It would be good if someone updated that or added something more relevant,
e.g. based upon current 'osgeo-' prefixed formulae in OSGeo4Mac [1], etc.

I am currently working in a different packaging system and am not intending
to work with Homebrew or OSGeo4Mac in the near future. So, unfortunately, I
can not spend time on any documentation re-writes for awhile.

[1] https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac/projects/1

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota


> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 24 Apr 2019, at 08:28, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm CC'ing Larry Shaffer who has been very active on this in the past.
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthias
> On 4/24/19 8:00 AM, Peter Petrik wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> would it be possible to remove/archive this repo
> https://github.com/qgis/homebrew-qgisdev ?  I think it brings more
> confusion than good for new Mac developers. Only with some value in it is
> README.md
> <https://github.com/qgis/homebrew-qgisdev/blob/master/development/README.md> ,
> but as it is unmaintained it has some mistakes already. I think that part
> of it is already in qgis's INSTALL and part could be just published as blog
> post.
>
> I am not maintainer of the repo, so I do not have these rights.
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
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