[Qgis-psc] QGIS for Mac OS packaging and infrastructure

[Luigi Pirelli]

I'm not in general in favor of fees on a free (as freedom) project, but in
win or linux env, we do not have to pay Apple to sign the application of
buy a dedicated hardware to perform CI! (revolutionary tax)
I'm in favor of a fee considering the fact that OSX (not mac) users didn't
want to crowdfund the packaging of support OSX costs for CI (mostly US
market). In Win env (now) there is a good dev community that can compile
and help build documentation and debug. The only effort on OSX package is
lutra's contribution (AFAIK) => there is no a fair balance!
IMHO spend project funds to a packaging process that nor their user want to
support is like continuing to give support to QGIS package for Win XP that
is no supported nor by M$.

More, with Apple moving more to an entertainment company we should consider
it carefully... IMHO project funds for a packaging that are strictly
dependent to commercial decisions is too risky! (remember all harware lost
changing apple powerPC to intel processors 10 years ago).

my2c

Luigi Pirelli

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 16:36, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 26 Mar 2019, at 14:39, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok I know this may sound heretic (please don't send me to the stake or my
> kids will starve), but did you consider selling the Mac packages for a
> small fee?
>
> I mean it's absolutely fair that you require a compensation for all you
> hard work on the Mac stuff, you well deserve it, but I'm not sure this
> should be on the general QGIS.org budget.
>
> The rationale is that the we all know the reasons why developing on Mac is
> so expensive (well, Mac is so expensive in general) and I think that Mac
> users should pay for the most of it, not all the users.
>
>
> As a totally biased MacOS user I’m -1 for this. I don’t think supporting
> packages on Windows or Linux is really any cheaper, just that we had a
> willing volunteer (Jürgen and others for other Linux derivatives) who
> contributed a lot of effort for free. I would really not like to see that
> we single out one platform and start charging for packages it.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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> *Tim Sutton*
> tim at qgis.org
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