Re: GUI on MacOS X !

[Sebastian Schöps]

> Am 24.09.2017 um 13:49 schrieb Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> On Sep 24, 2017, at 7:26 AM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The GUI hangs when I quit, so its not “stable” yet.
>> 
>> This is also what I observe since more than half a year. Octave hangs on
>> exit:
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50795
>> 
>> Homebrew has stopped shipping the GUI. I did not see any change recently.
>> However, I am compiling with qt5.9. Maybe this makes a difference. 
>> 
>> By the way: to my knowledge we should drop support for qt4 as it is
>> unsupported and has many knows bugs.
> 
> I’m still using Qt4 because I was never able to complete a successful build 
> wth Qt5 (via Fink).
> 
> If there are any maintainers on MacOS who would like to get the gui working, 
> now may be a good opportunity.

I like to add that we have - thanks to Simone Deparis - an macOS development 
machine... dear qt experts, please help!

Sebastian