[Unison-hackers] Seeking to bring Mac support up to date

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

I’ll also be happy to beta test…

   - B


On Apr 29, 2014, at 2:27 AM, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2014-04-28 23:34, Alan Shutko <ats at acm.org> writes:
> 
>> I'm interested in getting the UI working again on Mac. As mentioned in
>> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/unison-users/conversations/topics/10918
>> , Unison currently does not build on OS X 10.7 or higher, because it
>> uses the BWToolkit and Interface Builder plugin, which are no longer
>> supported in Xcode 4.
>> 
>> I currently have a visually unappealing codebase which will build and
>> run on both Xcode 3 and 4. I'm working to clean it up for submission.
>> After that, I am going to investigate some UI improvements: more clear
>> display of conflicts in packages and the ability to click on a growl
>> notification to open Unison.
>> 
>> Are there any other items that should be fixed for OS X? What is the
>> oldest version of OS X that we should retain support for?
> 
> Thanks a lot for taking care of this. There is one current bug that is
> very annoying: when a transfer is going on, if one clicks on the
> disclosing triangle (to see details about a folder, for instance), then
> Unison crashes. I had tried to track down that bug but did not go very
> far (as I don't know much about OS X debugging).
> 
> I'll gladly beta test your version, if you need testers.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Alan
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