Planned Mac OS X binary roll-back and obsolescence #5
Description
There appears to be a deep bug in the latest Mac build of ManyTrack that might have something to do with the library mac versions or their interactions. I'm planning on dropping the supported mac release back to the previous binary.
At this point, trying to maintain the two builds is preventing progress on the stable codebase, so unless someone wants to adopt responsibility for ensuring the Mac version remains in sync with the main release, it's going to remain experimental and unsupported.
I think moving forward the best way to support Mac users is to build up our documentation and testing around virtualization options. I've been testing on VirtualBox, and with the right settings the performance hit, while not negligible, isn't so bad that it's a non-starter.
If anybody does want to take over maintenance of the Mac binary, here's basically what it would entail:
- Keeping version parity with the required libraries used in the linux release
- Building the software with redistributable libraries
- Testing that the binary works on multiple recent versions of OS X
- Testing that each of the tools works on a known good video
I'm leaving this issue up, marked as #wontfix, as a kind of notice to any active users/developers interested in our Mac release. Please chime in if you're interested, or with suggestions if you're a Mac user.