Re: another quartz maintainance request (patch review & commit)

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> This bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594738
> contains a potentially important fix to make 2+ monitors work with
> GTK/Quartz. Those of us in the GTK/Quartz "community" would appreciate
> someone with commit rights (1) looking at christian's approach and
> forming a judgement on whether its the right approach to the problem
> (2) committing this or some eventual fix.
>
> Things are looking pretty bad for GTK/Quartz maintainance right now.
> Nobody that has commit access appears to be in a position to test
> (i.e. "care") about Quartz fixes; those who care do not have commit
> access. It would be hugely preferable (IMHO) for us to not to have to
> "branch" to an alternate git repo ...

I agree with you that it would be preferable to have everything in the
upstream git repo and avoid having to "branch" to an alternate repo.
Currently my problem is that I do not have access (yet) to a machine
running Leopard or Snow Leopard, so I am basically stuck on Tiger and
can only properly test fixes on that platform.  Also, the build is
currently broken on Tiger so I have been working to fix that.  (I have
half finished patch to Pango that I also need to test on Leopard at
some point ;) I will leave that for now and carry on with other work I
can do first).  So in short: I do care about the Mac port, but I have
very little spare time.

Since I fortunately have a VGA-dongle for my MacBook I can actually
test the fix in the bug you brought up.  I will promise to do so in
the next 7 days.  Unfortunately, I cannot really keep up with bugs as
soon as they come in ...  It is probably useful if I get myself added
to the gtk-quartz-maint alias though.


regards,

-kris.