Re: [Gimp-developer] MacOS-Build, maybe I could help?

[Philip Lehmann-Böhm <philip philiplb de>]

Hi Andrea,

sure, sounds good. :)

Am 15.05.18 um 19:31 schrieb Carmelo DrRaw:
> Somehow I forgot to mention the most important thing…
>
> @Philip: would you be interested to collaborate with me on this? I 
> such case, I have no problem to give you contributor access to the 
> corresponding github repo, for example.
> Once the first DMG is created, the most important thing will be to 
> test the package and report/fix problems, and that’s were in my 
> opinion it will be super-useful to share the work…
>
> What do you think?
>
> regards,
> Andrea
>
> > On 15 May 2018, at 14:11, Carmelo DrRaw <aferrero1975 gmail com 
> > <mailto:aferrero1975 gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to chime in this thread, to let you know that I have 
> > quite some experience in automating the OSX DMG creation process for 
> > GTK applications.
> >
> > I have already set-up such a build procedure for another project of 
> > mine (https://github.com/aferrero2707/pf-build-osx), and I am 
> > currently working on applying the same concept to GIMP.
> > The build environment is based on Homebrew, and is designed to run 
> > automatically on Travis-CI (https://travis-ci.org 
> > <https://travis-ci.org/>). The resulting DMG package gets 
> > automatically uploaded back to GitHub, without any manual intervention.
> > Up to now I have successfully compiled the git head version of 
> > BABL/GEGL/GIMP using dependencies from homebrew. Now I am starting to 
> > adapt the scripts to Travis-CI and to package the whole thing into a 
> > DMG file.
> > The whole set of scripts would be hosted in a github repository, so 
> > that it will be accessible to everybody for checking and improving…
> >
> > If that sounds interesting/useful, just let me know. The idea is 
> > primarily meant at regularly providing ready-to-install snapshots of 
> > the development version, with close-to-zero workload for developers.
> > By the way, I am already taking care of a similar automated build 
> > procedure for a GIMP Linux AppImage package 
> > (https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrea
> >
> > > On 15 May 2018, at 12:53, Philip Lehmann-Böhm <philip philiplb de 
> > > <mailto:philip philiplb de>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Am 15.05.18 um 12:50 schrieb Philip Lehmann-Böhm:
> > > > Am 15.05.18 um 10:47 schrieb Kristian Rietveld:
> > > > > > On 12 May 2018, at 14:00, Philip Lehmann-Böhm <philip philiplb de 
> > > > > > <mailto:philip philiplb de>> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've read in the FAQs that the guy with the Mac is a bit busy at 
> > > > > > the moment and so there is hardly any time left for creating the 
> > > > > > DMG. Maybe I could help here and do the build? I would just need 
> > > > > > some directions what is needed to compile and build the package.
> > > > > How we have been building the DMG up till now is documented in git:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/build/osx/README?h=gimp-2-8
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This is now a little outdated because I have been working on fully 
> > > > > automating this process when I still had some spare time. This 
> > > > > work is in fact almost complete. I am trying to find the time to 
> > > > > upload this work into git. It will consist of a Python script that 
> > > > > will automatically build all components and create the DMG and 
> > > > > some documentation on how to setup the environment within which to 
> > > > > launch this Python script.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that this concerns GIMP 2.8. There are no instructions for 
> > > > > 2.10 yet. My plan was to work on making the necessary changes to 
> > > > > the script and moduleset to build 2.10 as soon as the work for 2.8 
> > > > > has been published in git.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > -kris.
> > > > Hi Kris,
> > > >
> > > > automating the build process seems like a good idea. :)
> > > >
> > > > Is there anything I could do in the meantime? Like adjusting the 
> > > > Python script to 2.10?
> > > Or following the steps of the README and build a dmg?
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