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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 10:35, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry Nyall and all, I hadn't intention to give a negative impression of osx users, wasn't my intention... I focused only the fact that these users didn't invested in packaging for osx platform. There could be many reasons for this, not so good marketing of the fundraising? not a US company asking for money (assuming most of them are US based)? better a second round? no idea.

No worries - my comment wasn't directed to you, it was a general
comment based on my experience when this topic has been discussed in
the past.

Nyall

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