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Continuing to need a Mac OS X developer to maintain Tux Pain
Bill Kendrick
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Post Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 6:17 pm
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:20:09AM -0500, Jeffrey Carpenter wrote:
Quote:
Hi there,

Although I am not able to offer any programming help at this time, I did
notice something that may help indicate where the problem may be:

MacBook Air (2011 model, stock, with the Intel HD 3000 chipset)
Mac OS X 10.11.4
http://static.inky.ws/image/5592/macbookair.png

After a minute of showing that and nothing more, I terminated the app.

Hackintosh build (2015, NVIDIA GeForce GT 740)
Mac OS X 10.11.3
http://static.inky.ws/image/5593/hackintosh.png

No problems whatsoever. I wonder if the problem could be video related?

Other thoughts: What version of SDL1 is TuxPaint built against? I notice
a number of changes, some of which affect the video subsystem, on the
latest tip of the SDL1 branch. Worth a shot to anybody that volunteers
for this.

I honestly don't know, off-hand. Is it something that someone with
a Mac can figure out easily? Can someone out here do that for me?
(I have a Mac Mini that I assume has no way of running recent OS X;
I believe Ryan G. gave it to me back in the day (thanks!))

The current OS X build of the latest Tux Paint was produced in
November 2013, about 9 months before the final version of 0.9.22 was
officially released. It was done by a developer who was being paid
by a school(?) to get Tux Paint working on OS X 10.9. Once he was done
and got paid, he stopped working on it.

So now it's coming up on 2 years since the official release, and no one
has actually tried building it for OS X, that I know of.
(Source tarball: http://tuxpaint.org/download/source/)


This issue of skewed graphics definitely seems to be an issue at a
lower level. Nothing in Tux Paint's own code should be causing it
(e.g., on the title screen -- just loads a PNG and blits it all at
once; nothing funny going on). I don't see similar reports from
users using earlier versions of OS X (10.9, 10.10).


I'm now getting reports of elementary schools which have begun upgrading
to OS X 10.11, and they're going to be stuck in a situation where they
can't even use Tux Paint anymore, if a corrected version isn't released.
So it's at the "won't _someone_ think of the _children_" level. ;-(

-bill!


Quote:
I wish you luck!

Cheers,
Jeffrey Carpenter

On 2015/12-18 00:44:25, Owen Hogarth II wrote:
Quote:
I have a mac but to be honest el capitan is such a major pain I actually
shrunk the size of my mac partition to about 100gb because I might need
xcode sometime in the future but I rarely go there anymore. I mainly use
vanilla Debian as it has everything that I need and it just works.

Apple has been making a lot of short sighted decisions that I believe
will hurt them when their massive profits start to dry up.

I can't promise anything today but I'll look at it this weekend and see
if I can provide any help.

Best,
Owen

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Bill Kendrick
<mailto:> wrote:


Tux Paint has needed some extra hands to help maintain the
OS X specific code (not that there's very much), and to
help build releases.

The latest OS X build was from months before the latest
release was officially posted, so it's basically a beta --
and THAT was over a year ago! (It was produced by a
developer who was being paid a bounty by a 3rd party who
wanted to get Tux Paint working on OS X 10.9.)

We're in a similar problem to the 10.9 issue, in that now
I'm receiving reports/complaints about Tux Paint not working
once people upgrade to El Capitan.

See: http://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/206/

So, I'm once again* reaching out into the void to see if anyone out
there is able & willing to volunteer for the project
(it's licensed GPLv2; see: http://www.tuxpaint.org/ )

Thanks in advance!


* I swear, this has is like pulling teeth :^/ No programmers
use Macs any more? Mac folks don't have time/inclination to
volunteer? They have a thing against children? What? ;^)

--
-bill!
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