Re: [Gnash-dev] What's our Mac story for gnash?

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Russ Nelson wrote:

> Bastiaan Jacques writes:
> > I've been doing some work on the Mac port very recently. I managed to
> > get the Aqua GUI working (with OpenGL, which comes with most (or all))
> > Macs. I had to implement antialiasing using the multisample OpenGL
> > extension because the Mac doesn't have hardware acceleration for the
> > accumulation buffer (the antialiasing method we currently use). Anyway,
> > the port is now almost complete. There are a few areas that need work
> > like streaming video and implementing a few GUI hooks. Also we'll need
> > to fix up our Mac package creation code.
> >
> > That said, this will likely not make it into 0.8.3.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Is our Aqua GUI working at all?
> 2) Does your Aqua GUI touch anything outside itself except in "safe" ways?

Yes, the port requires significant changes in the OpenGL renderer.

> If the answers are "no" and "no", then I see no harm in including it
> in 0.8.3 even if it isn't working perfectly.

I don't really see the point in including it in 0.8.3, because the
average Mac user doesn't want to download a tarball and install a dozen
dependencies in MacPorts (which they probably won't even have). And the
ones who are willing to go that length won't mind fetching the sources
from HEAD.

Hopefully, when I fix the outstanding bugs, I'll be able to create a
binary package.

For these reasons, I think we shouldn't worry about the Aqua GUI for the
release.

Bastiaan