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Re: New File Release: xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20041228


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


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