On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:58:09AM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 25.04.2017 um 00:32 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:22:11PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 24.04.2017 um 07:41 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > >>> > >>> Dear all, > >>> > >>> The tar balls and sig files are here: > >>> > >>> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0alpha1 > >>> > >>> Packagers, please prepare your binaries. > >>> > >>> Non-packagers, please do a quick test of compilation (from the tar ball) > >>> and basic functionality on your platform, and let us know how it goes. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Scott > > > > >> I built it with Qt-5.6.2 and it needs Mac OS X 10.7 at least (Mac OS X > >> Lion). > >> I’ve tested it on a Mac OS X 10.8.6 (Mountain Lion). I could open the > >> Users Guide > >> and view the compiled PDF. > > > > Do you have a link that reminds me why we use Cocoa instead of Carbon? I > > remember you explaining this somewhere but I can't find it. > > > > Scott > > Carbon is deprecated for a long time by Apple and current Qt builds are not > possible > anymore for a long time. See http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/developing-on-mac.html > for a > detailed overview. Qt4 is the latest release supporting Carbon. Furthermore > the final > 4.8 versions didn’t compile anymore on my current system (Mac OS X 10.11.6). > > I’ve built the alpha1 disk image with Cocoa only because of missing my old > build > environment at the moment. I think it is a good test to see if a Carbon build > is > really useful anymore.
Sounds good. Thanks for the details. Scott
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